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Leap Castle

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Leap Castle
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Detached Gothic style three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1760, with extension to rear and principal entrance gates to Leap Castle to west. Hipped tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with chamfered sandstone surround, label moulding and timber casement window. Pointed-arched door opening with carved sandstone colonnettes to surround and timber panelled and glazed door. Door accessed up two sandstone steps. Castellated entrance gates to adjacent Leap Castle comprises segmental-headed arched opening with wrought-iron double gates flanked by castellated square towers with gun-loops, pointed-arched pedestrian openings and quadrant walls.

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