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Roesborough House

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Roesborough House
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Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, now in state of ruin. Presents two storeys to front and three to rear and has two-bay end elevations. Roofless with cut limestone corbel table to eaves and having red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls with red brick internal…

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Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, now in state of ruin. Presents two storeys to front and three to rear and has two-bay end elevations. Roofless with cut limestone corbel table to eaves and having red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls with red brick internal masonry and render quoins. Square-headed window openings with brick surrounds and limestone sills. Tall round-headed window to middle of rear elevation. Some blocked segmental-arched openings to west end of rear. Remains of doorcase with limestone Doric engaged column, with steps. Seven-bay and five-bay ranges of two-storey outbuildings to rear of house with pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks, limestone corbel tables and rendered and painted walls with double timber casement windows and round-headed pedestrian and elliptical-headed vehicular entrances. Flat-headed carriageway through middle of smaller range with recessed round-headed panel overhead occupying first floor and having keystone.
Although now in a state of ruin the classical grandeur which Roesborough House once held is still apparent through features such as the limestone corbel table, remains of the carved doorcase and the symmetrically-spaced window openings. The fine ranges of outbuildings to the rear are a reminder that this fine house once formed part of a group of buildings which worked in conjunction to serve a prosperous farm.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22206602

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • A bit iffy, Wikimedia Commons
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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