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Charleville Castle

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Charleville Castle
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Detached three-bay two-storey gamekeeper's house, built in 1874 with extension to rear and outbuildings abutting wall of house. Set within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots, bargeboards to roof and gable finials. Yellow brick walls with red brick string course. Pointed arch window openings with tooled stone surrounds and yellow and black brick arches. Timber frame windows with tooled sills. Canted bay window with tooled stone surround and modillions to roof. Timber frame windows with stone sills. Projecting window to south with tooled surround, limestone sills and lintel, timber frame windows. Tooled limestone lintel to square-headed timber door with tooled stone threshold. Yellow brick outbuildings with slate roof abutting back of building. Holding pens for animals to rear if house with cast- and wrought-iron railings.
This gamekeeper's house at Charleville Castle is located next to the Camden Tower. The game pens to the rear this cottage appear to be in a good state of repair and in an excellent state of preservation. An enclosed yard with several stores is well integrated into the overall design. The steeply pitched cross gable roof is enlivened by wide timber bargeboards with pierced carving.

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