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Detached gateway and gate lodge, built 1846, comprising pointed segmental-arched carriageway and two-bay two-storey adjoining lodge with square-plan turret. Dressed sandstone walls to carriage-arch with battlemented parapet, stringcourse and central carved plaque. Flanking buttresses rising into battlements with carved stepped pointed coping stones. Attached dressed limestone side wall to north with carved and pointed coping stones having stringcourse beneath. Attached two-bay two-storey gate lodge to south comprising tower with base batter and stepped crenellations with carved sandstone chimneystack to battlements. Adjoining squared turret tower and lean-to outbuilding. Pointed slate roof, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods and wind vane to turret. Square-headed loop openings to turret with ogee-headed window opening to tower. Camber-headed door opening with timber battened door having carved lettering and false machicolation above. Attached dressed sandstone sidewall terminating in piers with carved pointed coping stones. Located west of Castle Oliver.
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