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Castletown — Coolbaun

castle/fortified house
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Castletown — Coolbaun
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Detached multiple-bay four-storey rectangular-plan fortified house of c.1600 with three-bay two-storey wing built c.1820 onto southeast side and connected by three-storey link containing main doorway. Pitched slate roofs behind crenellated battlements, having rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Variety of timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, four-over-four pane to first and eight-over-eight to second, including double round-headed sashes and with segmental-headed triple-sash four-over-four pane window in southeast gable of later block, also with loops to earlier block. Pointed-arch main doorway with timber battened door. Wall to south of building and formal walled garden may both be contemporary with earlier building. Single and two-storey stone outbuildings having pitched slate roofs, one with carriage arches, located to southeast of house. Cut-stone gate piers with balls to gateways in random stone boundary walls, one with castellated coping, other with stile.

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