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Ferry House — KILLYDONNELL

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Ferry House — KILLYDONNELL
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Detached seven-bay two-storey former ferry house, built c.1780, having later projecting gabled porch to front, lean-to addition to rear, and single-storey extension to rear. Now in use as private dwelling. Pitched purple slate roof with exposed rafter ends, cast-iron rainwater goods and three rendered chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Pitched slate roof to porch and rear addition. Roughcast-rendered walls on projecting plinth course with raised rendered quoins. Raised pediment to front of porch, and rubble stone walls to rear addition. Square-headed openings with stone sills, raised render surrounds and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor, with timber panelled shutters, and timber battened door. Tiled floor to porch. Building overlooks Lough Swilly, with causeway extending to southeast. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to northeast, enclosed within rubble stone boundary wall with square-plan piers and replacement metal gate.

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