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Title:	Old Orchard, Butterfield Avenue, Rathfarnham, South Dublin County
Authors:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Keywords:	two-storey former country house Deep bay and casement windows brick and rubble walls segmental-arched radial fanlight Door sidelights glazed brick sills Timber sash windows Former stable block depressed arched brick openings exposed sash boxes Diagonal brick corbels cast-iron gate Robert Emmet
Issue Date:	1-Jan-2002
Publisher:	Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Description:	Detached L-plan seven-bay two-storey former country house, c.1780, now in use as a private house. Three main sections. Principal house four bays, with brick and rubble walls, partly rendered and all painted. Replacement timber door in porch with segmental-arched radial fanlight and sidelights. Deep bay window with casements to east, glazed brick sills. Timber sash windows elsewhere. Hipped slate roof. Former stable block to west, three-bay with timber casements to first floor, hipped slate roof. Double-leafed door flanked by depressed arched brick openings. Some original eighteenth-century timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Modern outbuildings. Later two-bay addition to south of original house. South face of addition divided by full-height chimney breast, rising to yellow brick stack with slate hung sides. Diagonal brick corbels to eaves. Walls are rubble and brick under render. Pyramidal slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Elaborate cast-iron gate and rendered wall to street.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/7424
Appears in Collections:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items

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