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Kilnacloy House — Monaghan

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Kilnacloy House — Monaghan
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Detached irregular L-plan two-storey over basement house, built c.1840 and extended c.1890, and having essentially four-bay elevations to front, rear and south-east, and five-bay elevation to north-west. Entrance in south-west elevation, in slightly lower one-bay block to re-entrant corner. One canted bay window to each elevation, except rear. Flight of steps up to doorways in front and rear elevations, latter entrance having gable-fronted openwork rustic-style porch. Hipped natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge-tiles, red brick chimneystacks with string courses and stepped dentillated copings and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled sandstone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and stone sills, margined one-over-two pane round-headed stair-light window to rear. Iron window grills to basement. Segmental-headed main doorway with torus-moulded red brick block-and-start surround and red brick voussoirs, double-leaf timber panelled door with rusticated panels, and decorative fanlight. Parapets to front steps and to garden boundary wall to front of house are of intricately carved stonework. Set within own grounds with mature trees surrounding. Former gateway to south-west, comprising decorative cast-iron square-plan piers and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

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