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The Lodge — HARE ISLAND

hunting/fishing lodge
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The Lodge — HARE ISLAND
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Detached three-bay former fishing/hunting lodge, built c.1814, having veranda supported on cast-iron pillars to the entrance front (southeast), a four-bay single-storey return to a rear (northwest) and a bow projection to the northwest side elevation. Entrance porch to north end of northeast-facing elevation of rear return. Now out of use and in a derelict condition. Hipped and pitched natural slate roof with Tudor Gothic style rendered chimneystacks and the remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, render now failing exposing rubble limestone construction beneath with brick dressings to the openings. Square-headed window openings to the entrance front (southeast), now boarded up. Canted-bay window to the south end of northeast facing elevation. Pointed-arched openings to the northeast and southwest faces of rear return with remains of timber sash windows. Shallow segmental-headed doorcase to the south end of northeast facing elevation now boarded up. Located towards the centre of Hare Island with two ruinous two-storey former houses to the northwest having square-headed window openings and round-headed doorcases. Remains of former outbuildings and a probable icehouse to site.

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