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Kildalton College — Piltown

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Kildalton College — Piltown
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Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor-style gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1900, on a cruciform plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting central bay having canted bay window, and two-bay single-storey return to south. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (half-polygonal slate roof to canted bay window having fish scale-profiled slate) with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack to crossing on limestone ashlar base, decorative timber bargeboards to gables having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls with limestone ashlar dressings including rock-faced quoins to corners, and rock-faced piers to canted bay window. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window) containing pointed-arch frames (some paired) with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to gables containing pointed-arch frames with no sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with two cut-stone steps, and timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in grounds shared with Bessborough House (Kildalton College).

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