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The Retreat — Spanish Point

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The Retreat — Spanish Point
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Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1825, with gabled projecting porch and three-bay return having single-bay single-storey over part-raised basement battlemented tower with base batter and corner turret. Arranged on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard. Originally thatched, re-roofed c. 1920, now derelict. Pitched slate roof with concrete ridge tiles. Pyramidal slate roof set behind rendered battlemented parapet to tower. Crenellated parapet to turret. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings. Blocked openings to base of tower, with lancet openings to turret. Gateway to site, comprising four circular-profile piers with battlemented cappings, battlemented boundary walls and wrought-iron gate.

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