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Rosehill House — Finglas Road

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Rosehill House — Finglas Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic over raised basement, built c. 1740, with full-height central canted-bay to east (front), engaged corner tower to northeast and low outlying extension to north basement. Now in use as offices. U-plan pitched slate roof with offset pediments to east and west and having angled slate ridges, leaded copings and valleys; cast-iron gutters and hoppers, with parapet wall and concealed gutters to south elevation; replacement uPVC downpipes; two cement-rendered chimneystacks to north gable having rendered copings and clay pots; and with conical lead-capped roof to corner tower. Cement-rendered walling with rendered banded quoins and cornice, over painted rendered channel-rusticated basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and painted architraves having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with steel grilles to ground floor and basement; Diocletian openings to gables with fixed timber windows having central four light casements, and round-headed opening to corner tower with curved three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window. Round-headed principal doorway with Gibbsian surround, cornice and plain semi-circular fanlight; fielded six-panel timber door with brass locks and letter box opening onto radiating granite steps with central cast-iron handrail. House set in remains of formal garden with front drive to west running to carpark at south and with lawn to north, having smooth-rendered rubble stone gate screen to Finglas Road with ornamental painted steel gates and railings.

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