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Mearscourt House — ROWLANDSTOWN

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Mearscourt House — ROWLANDSTOWN
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Detached five-bay three-storey over basement Palladian country house, built c.1760, possibly incorporating the remains of earlier buildings, including a Medieval tower house. Now in use as a guesthouse. Hipped natural slate roof partially hidden behind raised parapet with ashlar limestone coping over. Pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to centre. Roughcast lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (diminishing in size towards top) with cut stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sash windows to first and second floor openings and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor openings. Moulded ashlar limestone architraves having entablatures over to ground floor openings, raised dressed limestone surrounds with keystones to first floor openings and plain dressed limestone surrounds to second floor openings. Central ashlar limestone pedimented Doric doorcase with glazed timber double-doors and sidelights to south façade (entrance) with Venetian window over to first floor and Diocletian above the second floor. Flight of cut limestone steps, flanked by low plinth walls (with ashlar limestone coping) to east and west, give access to main entrance. Set back from road in extensive parkland demesne grounds with complex of outbuildings/stable block (154017012) to west and a walled garden to the rear (15401713).

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