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Monivea Castle

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Monivea Castle
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Group of single and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1850, now derelict. L-shaped arrangement with north and east ranges. Five-bay two-storey block to north with adjacent two-bay single-storey building. Four-bay two-storey dwelling to east with six-bay two-storey adjacent outbuilding. Segmental integral carriage arch with cut-stone voussoirs to north. Pitched natural slate roof to all buildings except for corrugated-iron roof to east face of six-bay building. Rendered chimneystack to ridge of dwelling, stone chimneystack to ridge of north range. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to dwelling. Remains of tripartite timber casement and two-over-two pane sliding sash windows elsewhere with limestone sills. Dressed limestone quoins and keystone to ground floor rear openings of six-bay dwelling, with central round-arch entrance, sheeted timber door with radial timber fanlight above, oculus window above entrance. Two segmental-arch openings with cut-stone voussoirs to north range, one to east. Set in farm courtyard arrangement with ruins of Monivea Castle adjacent to dwelling. Coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to west.

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