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Mallow Castle

castle/fortified house
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Mallow Castle
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Roofless rectangular-plan three-storey fortified house, built c. 1550, with four-storey polygonal-plan towers projecting from north-west and south-west corners of front elevation, and canted-plan towers to centre of front and rear walls. Remains of castellations to corner towers. Rubble limestone walls with dressed plinth, string course and quoins, and with remains of render. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone surrounds, having variety of transomed-and-mullioned windows, some also having dressed label-mouldings. Elliptical-headed door opening to north-east side of central tower of front façade with dressed and tooled stepped limestone surround and timber panelled door with cast-iron hinges. Flat-arched opening to east with curved corners, having dressed limestone surround and cast-iron gate. Rectangular plan castellated outbuilding to east with rubble stone walls and dressed limestone plinth course, having segmental carriage arch with cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf doors. Rubble limestone square-profile piers to entrance gates to north with dressed limestone caps and wrought-iron gates.

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