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Mooresfort House

gate lodge
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Mooresfort House
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Detached two-pile three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1855, rear pile being addition, with pedimented breakfront and having single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystack to front block and rendered chimneystack to rear, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls with plinth and having carved decorative detail set in recessed panels over windows. Roughcast rendered to gables and painted rubble limestone to rear wall. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone surrounds and sills and replacement aluminium windows. Round-headed door opening with timber battened door and plain fanlight, set into ashlar walling flanked by Doric columns, all supporting entablature and portico. Dressed limestone gate piers and flanking walls with carved limestone capping stones to piers and walls.
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