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Rockspring House

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Rockspring House
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Freestanding single-bay two-stage turret, extant 1904, on an octagonal plan. Moss-covered conical thatch roof on timber construction with ball finial-capped exposed wire stretchers to apex having exposed wire scallops, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Red brick Flemish bond walls. Pointed-arch central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron glazing bars. Set in walled garden in grounds shared with Rockspring House.

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