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Aisling House — Victoria Crescent

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Aisling House — Victoria Crescent
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End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey over basement house with attic level, built 1880, having projecting two-storey box bay window to the south-east elevation with gabled-fronted half-dormer over, central projecting single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the south-west elevation flanked to either side by single-storey box bay windows, and with gable-fronted half-dormer opening to the north-west end of the south-west elevation. Modern single-storey addition to the north-west. One of a terrace of five buildings along with its neighbours to the north-east (see 40815017-20). Pitched artificial slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, projecting red brick chimneystack and chimneybreast to the north-west end having projecting red brick detailing (on triangular-plan), and with moulded eaves course to the south-west and south-east elevations supported on moulded brackets. Modern rooflights. Mono-pitched artificial slate roofs to box bays and to porch. Red brick walls (English garden wall bond) with flush smooth rendered stringcourses and sill courses. Red brick stringcourse beneath brackets at eaves level. Square-headed window openings, paired to outer bays to the south-west elevation and to box bay windows and gable-fronted dormer to the south-east elevation, having replacement one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with leaded coloured glass to upper panels. Replacement windows at dormer level. Square-headed door opening to centre of porch to south-west elevation having replacement door with replacement side lights; replacement overlights incorporating earlier coloured and painted leaded glass panels. Low rendered rubble walls to basement level to the south-east and south-west elevations having decorative wrought-iron railings over. Set back from road to the south-west of the centre of Buncrana with gardens to front and rear. House overlooks the Mill River to the south. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having smooth rendered plinths, gable-fronted coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Complex of single- and single-storey with loft level outbuildings to the north having pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting, red brick walls with sections of stone, and square-headed doors, loading bays, and carriage-arches with battened timber doors and double-doors, and with square-headed window openings to the south-west gable end having cast-iron framed windows with flush red brick block-and-start surrounds. Section of rubble stone boundary wall to the south-west of site having gateway to the south-west. Pedestrian gateways to site with cast-iron and wrought-iron gates.

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