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Hill Castle — HILLCASTLE

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Hill Castle — HILLCASTLE
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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan with two-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles centred on cement rendered chimney stack to apex having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on box eaves. Limewashed fine roughcast walls. Pointed-arch central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber door. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber fittings. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Hill Castle.

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