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Thornberry — Kilgobbin Road

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Thornberry — Kilgobbin Road
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Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house, extant 1837, on a square plan. Renovated. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with engaged fluted columns supporting lead-covered "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on flush beaded or panelled frieze, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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