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Moyles House — Inishkeen

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Moyles House — Inishkeen
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Detached five-bay two-storey former parochial house, built c.1890, with recessed central three bays to front (south-west) elevation, having flat-roofed canted bay window to centre. Two-storey return to rear elevation, with recent single-storey extension to its rear elevation. Two-storey staircase return to rear elevation, and recent conservatory to south-east side elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber eaves with carved timber corbels. Carved timber brackets to eaves over recessed central bays. Pitched slate roof to single-storey extension. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render plinth course and with platband at first floor sill level. Moulded cornice to canted bay. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. One replacement uPVC window to ground floor of front elevation. Pointed-arch window opening to rear elevation, with paired pointed-arch timber-framed windows with Y-tracery and leaded stained-glass panel over. Round-headed window opening to staircase return having replacement uPVC window. Segmental-headed recessed porch to front elevation, with mosaic tiled floor and granite step, with bootscrape. Segmental-headed door opening within porch, comprising half-glazed timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by fluted cast-iron columns to north-west corner of front elevation of house. Two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to rear of house, having pitched slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystack, and rubble stone walls, render removed. Square-headed openings with timber-framed windows, timber louvres, and timber battened doors; elliptical-arched window opening to ground floor with timber-framed window. Rock-faced rusticated stone retaining walls with cut-stone coping, forming terrace to front of house, broken by flight of stone steps leading down to front garden. Site entrance to south-west of house has double-leaf wrought-iron gates flanked by square-plan rendered piers, in turn flanked by wrought-iron quadrant railings on rock-faced rusticated stone plinth. Rock-faced rusticated stone boundary walls.

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