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Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1780, having single-storey extension under construction to east. Hipped natural slate roof with limestone dressed eaves course. Lined and ruled rendered façades with draughted and pecked projecting stone plinth, draughted and pecked stone edging band to end gables. Pointed-arch window openings with draughted and pecked stone surrounds, tooled limestone sills, multi-pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed-arch timber entrance door with glazed panels to upper section having stained glass to apex panel, timber panels to lower section, and draughted and pecked stone surround. Set in yard with single-storey rendered outbuildings to south and single-storey house to south-west, random rubble boundary wall to road leading to entrance gates of Castle ffrench estate. Entrance gates at road comprises square-plan carved limestone piers having panelled faces and moulded square-plan caps, with wrought-ieon railings atop dressed plinths with cut-stone copings, with hemispherical wheelguards.
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