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coastguard station — ROCHESTOWN

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coastguard station — ROCHESTOWN
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Detached seven-bay two-storey coastguard station, built c.1860, having machicolations to rear (east) and side (north), square-profile lookout tower to south-west corner with machicolations to front (west) and side (south). Now in ruins. Roof absent with remains of rubble stone gables to interior dividing walls and red brick chimneystack with rendered capping. Rubble stone walls, with some remaining render. Rendered walls to machicolations, having crenellated parapets surmounting paired rendered corbels. Camber-headed window openings with render sills, having red brick block-and-start surrounds and red brick voussoirs. Camber-headed door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and red brick voussoirs. Set overlooking Courtmacsherry bay.

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