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Castletown House — COTTLESTOWN

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Castletown House — COTTLESTOWN
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Detached four-bay two-storey-over-basement rendered double-pile house, built c. 1820. Rectangular on plan with forward-projecting, broken-bed pedimented, end bays to front elevation, and, similar breakfront to east elevation. Two-storey flat-roofed return to rear (north) elevation. One-and-a-half storey stone outbuildings around south and west sides of courtyard to west of main house. Pitched slate roof, plain clay ridge tiles, ashlar stone corbelled chimneystacks, half-round uPVC gutters on projecting eaves with painted timber sheeted soffits carried on plain paired corbels, painted timber bargeboards to broken pediments. Simple stone corbelled eaves to north pile. Painted smooth-rendered walls, ashlar moulded raised plinth to south and east elevations. Square-headed window openings, limestone sills, painted mullioned-and-transomed small-pane timber sash windows to south and east elevations, six-over-six sashes to north and west, timber and uPVC casements to basement. Ashlar limestone entrance doorcase set below wide elliptical-headed voussoired arch with, unusually-profiled, columns flanking painted timber panelled door, elaborate sunburst fanlight over, multi-pane sidelights, ashlar steps. Approached by driveway from south-west, landscaped garden with mature trees, castle and mill to north-west.

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