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Fortagusta — Arthurstown

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Fortagusta — Arthurstown
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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement dower house, built 1837; extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with three-bay full-height rear (east) elevation. Sold, 1880. Occupied, 1911. Pitched red fibre-cement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed red brick block-and-start surround framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows with six-over-six (basement) or six-by-six horizontal (first floor) timber sash windows to rear (east) elevation. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having capping supporting looped flat iron double gates.

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