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Castle Otway — Templederry

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Castle Otway — Templederry
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Detached seven-bay two-storey country house over half-basement with three-bay pedimented breakfront, built c.1750, and having four and five-storey medieval towerhouse rebuilt in nineteenth-century with three-storey elevations, with turret, to rear. Now in ruins. Roofless, with rendered brick chimneystacks to house and multiple offset limestone stack to towerhouse. Castellations, machicolations and corbel tables to towerhouse. Roughly-dressed limestone walls, slate-hung to rear and southwest gable, with brick eaves course and ashlar quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings with limestone voussoirs and sills. Pointed-arch openings, some blocked, with ashlar limestone voussoirs and keystones and limestone sills to tower. Square-headed opening to entrance with carved limestone engaged Doric columns, entablature and pediment. Remains of limestone steps leading to entrance. Castellated walls with alternating round and rectangular openings having integral carriage-arch and with castellated mock gatehouse to southwest. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to south-east.

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