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Kilgobbin — Kilgobbin Road

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Kilgobbin — Kilgobbin Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall (ground floor); roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to side elevations with roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening into house with glazed terracotta tiled threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters on padstones supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with cut-granite octagonal piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting flat-iron gate.

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