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Victor Holmes and Sons — William Street

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Victor Holmes and Sons — William Street
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Detached three-storey three-bay house and former constabulary barracks, built c. 1830 and extended and altered c. 1885, having single-bay two-storey extension to east. Now in use as use as a carpet and furniture warehouse and garden centre with modern two-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course, blue clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods (gutters supported on wrought-iron brackets) and four cement rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and two to the centre). Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with painted block-and start raised quoins to corners and painted plinth to base. Square-headed window openings at first and second floor level having stone sills, and with paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with central timber mullion. Enlarged square-headed window openings at ground floor level having fixed-pane timber display windows. Enlarged square-headed doorway to centre of main block having modern glazed timber door, and modern sidelights and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of the centre of Raphoe. Tarmacadam forecourt to the north and garden centre to the east having rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to north.

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