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Dromana House — Villierstown

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Dromana House — Villierstown
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Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1874, on a shallow T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a shallow T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), pressed or rolled iron ridges, paired rendered red brick Running bond octagonal chimney stacks on cushion course on rendered base having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping, quatrefoil-perforated timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on quatrefoil-perforated timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing four-over-four (ground floor) or four-over-two (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Dromana House.

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