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Ross Coastguard Station

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Ross Coastguard Station
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Detached five-bay single-storey coastguard station, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Closed, 1864. "Improved", pre-1896, producing present composition. Renovated, 2004, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with roughcast chimney stacks to apexes centred on roughcast chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting iron gate.

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