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Holymount — RATHMULLAN AND BALLYBOE

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Holymount — RATHMULLAN AND BALLYBOE
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Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan house, built c.1840, having full-height canted bays of c.1890 to front elevation, two-bay northeast side elevation, and shallow single-storey projections to side elevations. Hipped slate roof with moulded cornice to eaves, centrally located pair of yellow brick chimneystacks, decorative cast-iron finials to canted bays, and lean-to slate roofs to projections. Smooth-rendered walls on plinth course with raised quoins to corners of building, moulded string courses above each storey of canted bays, and sill course to each floor. Round-headed window opening with raised render surround to middle bay of first floor and square-headed elsewhere, with Edwardian one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorway flanked by cavello-moulded surround and flanked by pilasters with consoles and cornice, and having full-height timber panelled double-leaf door. Set on elevated site overlooking Lough Swilly, with curved approach flanked by mature trees and having entrance gate to road with square-plan rendered piers and replacement metal gate. Parkland to northwest of house, with small area of ornamental gardens to west, formerly orchard, and single and two-storey rendered outbuildings to rear with pitched slate and corrugated-metal roofs.

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