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Drum House — Inch Island

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Drum House — Inch Island
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, having projecting single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to central bay flanked by two-storey canted bays. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks with coping, cast-iron framed roof-lights to rear pitch, smooth rendered eaves course, and cast-iron profiled guttering and downpipes; sloped mono-pitched roofs to canted bays rising from main roof pitch. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered articulated block-and-start quoins to corners, and smooth rendered plinth; smooth rendered walls to canted bays and rear extension. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane sliding horned timber sash windows, paired to central bay at first floor level, and smooth rendered sills; two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows to central bay at rear. Square-headed door opening comprising of half-glazed timber panel door with sidelights over timber panel stall-risers and glazed overlight. Set within own grounds with outbuildings to rear, built c. 1800, comprising detached single-storey partially ruined building to the north-west with random rubble walls with pitched corrugated-cement roof, and detached two-storey barn on L-shaped plan with roughcast random rubble stone walls with ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners, and pitched corrugated-cement roof to north. Garden to front of property with strap-bar wrought-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered square piers. Hedge-lined driveway to the south-east with gateway to the south-east comprising of strap-bar wrought-iron gate mounted on smooth rendered cylindrical piers with cone-shaped finials. Located on elevated site to the south-west coast of Inch Island.

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