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Myrtle Cottage — Ardara Road

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Myrtle Cottage — Ardara Road
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Detached three-bay single-storey house with attic level, built c. 1900, having central projecting gable-fronted porch to the front (south-east), and extension to the rear (north-west). Possibly originally built as a social\local authority house. Steeply pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with central rendered chimneystack. Rubble stone walls, originally rendered, with flush roughly squared rubble stone quoins to the corners. Roughcast rendered walls to porch over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with red brick lintels, smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills (?), and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to porch with remains of one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the front face of porch (south-east) having replacement glazed timber door with overlight. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of the centre of Glenties. Garden to site; single-bay single-storey garage, c. 1950, to the south-west. Pedestrian gateway to the south-east having cast-iron gate posts and hooped wrought-iron gate. Hedging to road-frontage to the south-east.

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