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West House — CASTLELOST WEST

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West House — CASTLELOST WEST
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Detached five-bay two-storey over a basement country house with attic storey, built c.1760, having projecting single-bay wings to either end of the front façade (southeast) and a return to the rear (northwest). Steeply pitched natural slate roof(s) with chimneystacks to either gable end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Central round-headed doorcase with cut stone block-and-start surround having a fluted lintel, a plain overlight and timber double doors. Doorcase reached by a flight of cut limestone steps flanked to either side by rendered walls. Cut stone plaque over the doorcase reads ‘This is the house that Jack built’. Coursed rubble limestone walls on quadrant-plan with cut stone coping over run away to either side of house (southwest and northeast) having central square-headed door openings flanked by round-headed niches. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (northwest) and to the northeast. Set well back from road in mature grounds to the west of Rochfortbridge. Main entrance gates to the southeast.

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