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Kinnitty Castle

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Kinnitty Castle
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Detached double-pile Tudor style three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to Castle Bernard, built c.1835, with castellated entrance gates to north of gate lodge. Now in use as outbuilding to modern bungalow south of gate lodge. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, moulded brick hexagonal chimneystack and skew corbels to gables. Ruled and lined rendered walls with sandstone plaques to south-facing gables. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone and sandstone surrounds with label mouldings and decorative tracery. Tudor arched door opening with architrave surround and timber panelled and glazed door. Castellated former entrance gates to Castle Bernard with ruled and lined rendered walls, castellations on paired sandstone corbels and central projecting entrance bay. Tudor arched carriage opening with recessed sandstone surround and decorative cast-iron double gates. Pedestrian opening and window opening flanking gates to screen walls.
The castellated entrance gates to the former Castle Bernard, now Kinnitty Castle, provided a suitably impressive entrance to a grand country estate. Although the gate lodge is hidden from view from the road by the imposing entrance gates, it received decorative detailing that echoed that of the main house. The Tudor style is evoked by the labels to the windows, brick chimneystacks and the Tudor arched door opening. A modern house was built within the entrance gates and this former lodge is now in use as an outbuilding.

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