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Summerhill House — SUMMERHILL (GLENKEEN PR)

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Summerhill House — SUMMERHILL (GLENKEEN PR)
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Quadrant gateway to Summerhill House, erected c.1820, comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances in screen walls. Square-profile carved granite piers with moulded plinths, fluted friezes, and moulded cornices to cut stone caps topped with carved granite pineapples to inner piers and render pineapples to outer piers. Screen walls are lined-and-ruled rendered and have moulded granite plinths and copings. Decorative wrought-iron spearhead gates, double-leaf to vehicular entrance. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820, inside north side of gateway, with recent single-storey lean-to extensions to rear and to north. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed fixed timber windows, tripartite to front elevation, one having moulded glazing bars, other being margined, and bipartite to side elevation, set into segmental-headed recesses, with concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door.

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