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Castlecomer House

gate lodge
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Castlecomer House
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Detached three-bay single-storey over-basement gate lodge, built 1912, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch; two-bay single-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof on timber pillars on plinths, roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired rendered octagonal chimney stacks on chamfered cushion courses on rendered bases having stringcourses below polygonal capping, timber bargeboards to gable on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed margined precast concrete block Flemish bond walls on precast concrete chamfered cushion course on plinth. Camber- or segmental-headed central door opening with tiled threshold, and margined precast concrete block surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with concrete mullions, and margined precast concrete block surrounds having chamfered reveals framing casement window having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (remainder) with cruciform mullions, and margined precast concrete block surrounds having chamfered reveals framing casement windows having square glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Castlecomer House.

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