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Castle Otway

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Castle Otway
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Detached gable-fronted single-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, with recessed single-storey bay to west with lean-to porch, and having octagonal tower to south elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with fish-scale details and rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with quatrefoil motif to east gable. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, having render label-mouldings and with loops to tower. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Roughly-dressed masonry to tower.
This former gate lodge is of apparent architectural design, and retains many features and materials which enhance the building, such as the slate roof with fish scale pattern and the timber sash windows. The label-mouldings and quatrefoil motif add artistic interest. The tower is notable for the apparent craftsmanship of its construction, and its unusual position in relation to the gate lodge, an obvious parallel to the architecture of Castle Otway.

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