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The Old Rectory in Straduff

Presbytery/parochial/curate's house

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Detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1910. L-plan, two-storey canted bay window to east gable-end, single-storey lean-to entrance porch in angle of L c. 1950, single-storey lean-to extension to south elevation c. 1950. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, lead hip cappings to bay, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, profiled extruded aluminium gutters on painted timber fascia, projecting painted timber bargeboards to east gable. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, projecting plinth, string course at first floor. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, plain-glazed overlight, painted vertically-sheeted timber door c. 1995. Set back from road in grounds, yard to south, rubble stone boundary walls, decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate to east, quadrant gatescreen with wrought-iron flat-bar gate to south-east. St Joseph's Catholic church across road to east.
This rather plain house is somewhat enlivened by the canted bay window. It retains its sash windows and has attractive wrought- and cast-iron boundary gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32403504

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  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Silversyrpher (very busy at the moment) from Scotland, UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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