Sommerville, farm house in County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1880, with off-centre canted bay, gablets to terminating bays and return to rear. Farm building attached to east. Farmyard complex to rear.ROOF: Double pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles; timber finials to gable and canted bay; rendered chimney stacks with a moulded cornice; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Nap rendered; ruled and lined with quoins and rendered plinth course. OPENINGS: Square headed with rendered reveals; granite cills and uPVC casements; originally bipartite windows to ground floor; square headed door with fluted plaster surround and uPVC door.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11335022

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