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Stables in Gort

Stables
Stables in Gort
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Mid-row two and three-storey outbuildings, built c.1820, formerly stables and subsequently converted to residential use. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with roughly dressed limestone chimneystacks and cut-stone eaves course. Partly rendered dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone…

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Mid-row two and three-storey outbuildings, built c.1820, formerly stables and subsequently converted to residential use. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with roughly dressed limestone chimneystacks and cut-stone eaves course. Partly rendered dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Elliptical former carriage arches having cut-stone voussoirs, now infilled, with square-headed timber windows and mixed replacement uPVC and replacement timber panelled doors.
A rare survival these former stables retain a strong sense of their original character, enhanced by the retention of the various sizes of openings and carriage arches. The cut-stone voussoirs exhibit skilled craftsmanship.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30341024

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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