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outbuilding — Letterkenny

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outbuilding — Letterkenny
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Complex of two-two storey outbuildings, built c. 1820 and c. 1860, arranged around a courtyard to the rear of an altered house, built c. 1880. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south having external flight of rubble stone steps to the centre of the front elevation (south) giving access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with projecting stone eaves course, and smooth rendered verges to gable ends. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with battened timber doors and remains of timber windows with wrought-iron security bars. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched natural slate roof with rendered verges to gable ends, and projecting stone eaves course. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with remains of timber fittings with wrought-iron security bars. Square-headed doorways with battened timber doors, and segmental-headed carriage-arch with brick voussoirs to arch. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to site. Detached three-bay two-storey house to the north, built c. 1880 and altered in 1899, having projecting single-storey porch to centre of the front elevation (north) having metal railings\balustrade over, and with two-storey canted bays to end bays to east and west, two-storey return to rear, and with modern single-storey extension to the south-east corner. Possibly containing earlier fabric. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west), and with timber bargeboards to the gable ends with timber brackets to the eaves. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills and replacement windows; two round-headed windows to front face of porch (north) having replacement windows. Square-headed door opening to the west side of porch having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, and plain overlight. Set well back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Garden to front (north) partially bound by limewashed rubble stone wall with rubble stone soldier coping over. Modern blockwork gate piers to entrance.

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