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The Reeks

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Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1825, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, built c. 1720. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre and five-bay two-storey lower return to rear to north-west. Renovated and extended to south-west, post-1921, on an L-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey lateral wing with two-bay two-storey projecting end bay to south-west having three-bay side elevation and nine-bay single-storey return to rear to north-west. Pitched and hipped roof slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks having cornices, overhanging eaves with plastered soffit and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with limestone plinth. Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Paired render pilasters and entablature to timber double-leaf glazed door with carvings. Round-headed paired two pane windows to sides of porch. Walled garden, built c. 1820, to south-west with red brick walls.

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