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Carton — Main Street

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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built 1757, on an L-shaped plan retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey return to rear to south-east. Hipped roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Rolled lead ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls over rubble stone construction (exposed squared rubble stone wall to side (south-west) elevation). Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick dressings to side elevation to south-west. Early timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1985, with rendered dressings over in segmental frame forming ‘fanlight’ motif. Set back from road in compartmentalised grounds of Carton Demesne with avenue to north. Section of iron railings to forecourt (north-west). Rubble stone boundary wall to remainder.

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