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Blessington — Drumcondra Road Lower

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Blessington — Drumcondra Road Lower
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Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1900, having canted end bays, that to north being gable-fronted and slightly forward of house facade proper, and with recent two-storey addition to rear at north end. Now in use as flats. Hipped slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles, terracotta finials, decoratively carved timber bargeboards and pointed timber finial to gabled bay, and red brick chimneystacks with red clay pots; hipped fish-scale tiled roof to gabled bay. Red brick walling, laid in English garden wall bond to front, with rusticated granite quoins and plinth course; smooth rendered walling to addition and north elevation, and brown brick walling laid in English garden wall bond to rear. Square-headed window openings with rock-faced granite lintels to front, cut granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed doorway set within elliptical-headed integral porch, with glazed timber doorcase and replacement uPVC door, approached by three nosed granite steps. Wrought-iron double-leaf pedestrian gate to front boundary supported on red brick piers with granite caps, one having carved lettering 'Blessington', within coursed squared limestone rubble boundary wall with curved granite coping over red brick course.

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