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Fort Fergus

Gate lodge

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Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1870, with single-bay gabled projecting bay to right and single-bay recessed entrance bay to left. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed extension added to right, c. 1970. Double pitched slate roof with paired chamfered brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with cut-limestone quoins, dressings to openings and niches to gables. Tudor arch door opening with limestone threshold and timber matchboard door. Single and tripartite timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron gates with cut-limestone piers having moulded copings, set in curved snecked limestone flanking walls. Curved wall on opposite side of road echoes entrance, providing turning space.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20405001

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Photo credits
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jackieray at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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