The Old Rectory in Laghta, County Leitrim

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Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1900, with return to rear and entrance porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks and over-sailing eaves. Rendered walls and quoins. Timber sash windows and tooled stone sills. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight in flat concrete-roofed entrance porch with rendered surround and stone steps. Enclosed yard to rear. Three-bay single-storey house with pitched slate roof, replacement timber windows and timber battened door to west of rectory. House set in parkland off the road.

This former rectory, set off the road in secluded parkland, affords a peaceful setting. It retains many of its original features such as the timber sash windows with original glazing and remains an intact example of nineteenth-century domestic architecture.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30802010

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