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First Castleblayney Presbyterian Church

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First Castleblayney Presbyterian Church
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Detached five-bay two-storey manse, built 1871, to designs by Dundalk architect John Murray, with T-shaped plan having two-bay two-storey extension to rear elevation and lean-to slate with lead hip-roofed porch over main entrance. Rolled clay ridge tiles over pitched slate roof having brick chimneystacks with oversailing courses, overhanging eaves with timber-sheeted soffits, pierced timber bargeboards and replacement metal rainwater goods held on timber fasciaboard. Coarse roughcast cement rendered walls with battered, projecting stone plinth and pointed segmental-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, and concrete sills. Slate with lead hip-roofed single-storey canted bay window to south-east ground floor elevation having square-headed lights with replacement uPVC frames, and concrete sills. Two-centred pointed-arch doorway on smooth rendered entrance porch to north-east elevation with moulded render cornice to porch and moulding around doorcase which holds pointed timber door. Pitched slate-roofed single-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding to north-east with smooth rendered wall and steel-sheeted gates between outbuilding and manse which has single storey lean-to structure in this rear enclosed yard. Site set back off Keady road in own gardens surrounded by mature trees between manse and adjacent Presbyterian church building.

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