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Castle Forbes — Newtown Forbes

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Castle Forbes — Newtown Forbes
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Group of single-storey outbuildings and estate worker's house associated with Castle Forbes, built c. 1820. Arranged around courtyard with adjoining segmental-arched entrance gate to the southwest. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Stepped cut limestone bellcote to the southwest gable of range to the west. Roughly dressed limestone walls with red brick construction in places. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber doors. Segmental-arched entrance gate with cut limestone block-and-start surround and voussoirs to arch and with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Rubble limestone boundary wall (with a number of loopholes), to the north, adjoining stable block (13303003) to the east. Rubble limestone boundary wall running south to walled garden (13303007). Located to the northwest of Castle Forbes and to the northwest of Newtown-Forbes.

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