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Raheny House — Howth Road

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Raheny House — Howth Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, having recent porch to south-east corner, lower multiple-bay two-storey block to south and multiple-bay two-storey block of c. 1950 to north. Further blocks to east. Hipped skirt artificial slate roofs to early and south blocks and pitched to north block, with rendered eaves course to early block. Stack of four offset rendered and brick chimneys to middle of roof of earliest block. Rendered ruled-and-lined walls with painted plinths. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to early and southern blocks and concrete to northern, with replacement uPVC windows. High brick boundary wall to east, roughcast rendered walls to road (south), with gateway and gate lodge. Gateway, missing gates, comprises central vehicular entrance flanked by cut granite piers and decorative curving cast-iron railings atop cut granite plinth walls, with similar terminating piers. Piers are square-plan with panels to front face, plinths, cornices and caps. Cast-iron wheel-guards to central piers. L-plan three-bay gate lodge has hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack, rendered walls and replacement windows and doors.

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