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Daramona House — Street

observatory/telescope, laboratory
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Daramona House — Street
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Single-bay two-storey former observatory, built c.1892, with attached single-storey building to the west, formerly a laboratory, darkroom and machine shop. Now ruinous and out of use. Dome to observatory now removed, flat roof to former laboratory with remains of balustraded parapet over. Cement rendered walls over plinth with projecting rendered string course at first floor level. Square-headed openings with remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, window/openings above now missing. Set back from road in grounds of and adjacent to Daramona House (14500208).

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