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castle/fortified house — Main Street

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Formerly detached multiple-bay six-storey medieval tower house, built c.1480, modified c.1600 and modernised c.1990, now in use as hotel. Rubble limestone walls with crenellated parapet walls having cut-stone coping and quoins and dressed gutter stones. Carved stone gargoyles to upper front wall. Arrow slit openings with cut limestone surrounds. Round-headed window to top floor with limestone sill, moulded limestone surround, and having replacement uPVC and timber windows. Square-headed two-light window c.1600 with carved limestone label-moulding and fixed timber lattice window with coloured glass. Round-headed entrance opening c.1990 with dressed limestone surround and voussoirs, replacement timber doors and windows and cast-iron portcullis feature.

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