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Duncannon Fort
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Detached five-bay single-storey armourer's workshop with half-attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally five-bay two-storey. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1933. Reconstructed, 1939, producing present composition. Decommissioned, 1986. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on roughcast eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround centred on keystone framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or cut-granite, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (gables) with lichen-spotted sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows. Set in shared grounds including relandscaped parade ground.

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