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Extract from the Castlerock Travel Guides:
Five miles or so west of Coleraine, at the Castlerock crossroads, is
Hezlett House
(April, May & Sept Sat & Sun noon-5pm; June-Aug Mon & Wed-Sun same times; 1.80), built in 1690 and restored after a fire in 1986. The house is a fine example of cruck-truss construction, an early method of prefabricated building using wooden frames filled with clay and rubble that was common in England but is enough of a rarity here to warrant preservation by the National Trust. The last owner of the house is buried in the graveyard at Downhill, where his gravestone quaintly bears both his own version of the spelling of his name and that of h...
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