Hillside House (Monaghan (Muineachán))

 house, listed building / architectural heritage, 1830s construction

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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with splayed flight of steps to entrance bay. Pitched natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, projecting dressed stone eaves course, red brick chimneystacks with stepped copings, and replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed sandstone walls with rendered margins. Square-headed window openings with squared stone voussoirs, painted sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door with overlight and having one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash sidelights. Retracting modern canopy over doorway. Flight of five dressed stone steps, with cast-iron railings atop cut-stone plinths, continuing parallel to front elevation, with occasional balustrades surmounted by urn finials.