Gate lodge in St. Catherine's Park, County Dublin

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Detached single-bay two-storey gate lodge, c.1800, with castellated brick parapet. Adjoining ashlar limestone castellated gateway and rubble stone screen walls, c.1830. Outbuildings to site.ROOF: Hipped slate roof with tall red brick chimney stack; coping; hidden behind castellated parapet to front. WALLS: Rubble stone; some lime render; granite coping to parapet; canted cut stone voussoirs to pointed arch of gateway; blocked up pointed archway to side retaining cutstone voussoirs. OPENINGS: Pointed arched and square headed window openings; brick surrounds; granite cills; pointed carriage arch to side.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11360005

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