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Castlemount
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Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, c.1830, with central breakfront entrance having crenellated parapet. Flanked by square plan tower with battered base to left corner and polygonal tower to right corner. Single-storey corrugated-iron extension to rear, c.1920. Gate lodge with roughcast rendered…

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Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, c.1830, with central breakfront entrance having crenellated parapet. Flanked by square plan tower with battered base to left corner and polygonal tower to right corner. Single-storey corrugated-iron extension to rear, c.1920. Gate lodge with roughcast rendered piers and walls with cast-iron gates to entrance. The house was constructed by a German family called Koenig. They called it Schlossburg, renamed Castlemount in 1914.ROOF: Roof hidden behind crenellated parapet wall; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rough cast rendered; granite plinth course with rendered blind lancet; rectangular and cruciform openings; nap rendered crenellated parapet; nap rendered central breakfront bay with angled buttresses and crenellated gabled parapet wall, containing nap rendered plaque. OPENINGS: Rectangular profile hood mouldings, square headed patent rendered chamfered soffits and reveals and flush chamfered stone cills, around bi-partite timber cusp headed casement windows with cylinder glass; depressed pointed arched plain cylinder glass fanlight above studded timber door with pointed arched mouldings within rectangular panels; decorative rendered spandrels under rectangular mouldings; cast-iron boot scrapers flank front door; three granite steps.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11362046

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  • JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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