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Willow Brook

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Willow Brook
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Detached four-bay single-storey house with basement, built c. 1830, having conservatory and lean-to addition to east side, latter containing entrance doorway, and another possibly earlier block at right angles to north. Shallow-hipped roof with overhanging eaves and with chimneystacks to ends of ridge. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, those of basement being above ground to west. Cobbled courtyard to east with outbuilding having stone walls. Another yard of buildings to rear again. Road entrance comprising tooled rubble stone walls terminating in square-plan stone piers having caps and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
This is one of a small group of houses which have their main floor set over a basement level. This example has several additions and retains its slate roofs and timber sash windows. The gates to the road have some ornate detailing.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20904803

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Eeno11, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; User Coil00 on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maker shown on the Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 3.0

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