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Kilgobbin House — Kilgobbin Road

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Kilgobbin House — Kilgobbin Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single- or two-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Renovated, 2009. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with roughcast chimney stacks to apexes having rendered rounded capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls. Round-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold supporting cast-iron bootscrapers, cut-granite doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting archivolt centred on keystone, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows with six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with cut-granite tapered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron gate.

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