Nazareth House — Fahan

Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with St. Mura’s (now Nazareth House), built c. 1871 and altered c. 1900, arranged around a courtyard to the east of the main house comprising seven-bay single-storey former coach house to the south of site having two-bay single-storey section attached to the north-west, four-bay two-storey block to the north-west having three-bay single-storey block attached to the east, and with segmental-headed carriage-arch to the west of site having curvilinear parapet over with plaque dated 1871, and with monogram ‘DMC’. Currently in use as outbuildings associated with Nazareth House. Pitched natural slate roof to outbuilding to the north-west, and hipped artificial slate roof to building to the south, with clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves course cement rendered chimneystack to building to the north-east, and with cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast and rendered rubble stone walls. Square and segmental-headed window openings, some with rendered brick block-and-start brick surrounds, some surviving with two-over-two and six-over-three pane timber sash window and replacement timber casement windows. Some surviving stone sills. Square-headed door openings with brick block-and-start brick surrounds and timber vertically-sheeted single and double-doors. Depressed-headed carriage-arched with rendered block-and-start brick surrounds. Decorative wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a cockerel over carriage-arch to the west side of complex. Set back from road in extensive mature shared grounds to the east of main house. Former walled garden adjacent to the south. Located to the north of the long straggling village of Fahan.