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Westport House

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Westport House
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Freestanding single-bay single-storey pedimented "garden temple", built 1914-5; extant 1924, on a square plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with lichen-covered terracotta ridge tiles. Rendered walls with rendered "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" pediment to gable framing cut-white marble coat-of-arms to "tympanum". Square-headed opening behind (single-storey) peripteral colonnade approached by flight of nine stone flagged steps with columns on padstones supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on blind frieze below chicken wire-covered parapet. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Westport House.

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