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Pair of attached three-bay single-storey former lighthouse keeper’s houses associated with St. John’s Point Lighthouse (see 40909715), built or altered 1900, having single-storey outbuildings attached to the south-east and north-west ends forming courtyard to the north-east of lighthouse. Now in use as stores and occasional dwellings. Flat (felt?) roofs having moulded eaves course and with rendered chimneystacks having battered bases. Smooth rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to outbuildings having six-over-three and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorways to former dwellings having replacement doors. Square-headed door openings to outbuildings having timber sheeted doors. Whitewashed walls to site having cut stone coping over. Gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone capstones over, and with modern metal gates. Located on the tip of St. John’s Point with sea views to three elevations. Located to the south/south-west of Dunkineely.
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