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Bowen's Court — FARAHY

demesne walls/gates/railings
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Bowen's Court — FARAHY
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Pair of gateways, erected c. 1870, giving access to St Colman's Church of Ireland church and to now demolished Bowen's Court country house. Comprising round-profile cast-iron piers having wrought-iron double-leaf gates and short sections of railings. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, dated 1873, to east, having gabled breakfront entrance and recent flat-roofed rear additions, and now in use as private house. Lodge has hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, replacement uPVC rainwater goods, timber finial to recent decorative bargeboards, painted smooth rendered walls having exposed ashlar limestone to breakfront with date plaque inscribed 'RCB 1873', square-headed window and door openings, having limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows, and brick-dressed replacement uPVC door. One of the three entrances into Bowen's Court demesne.

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