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Castle Leslie — Glaslough

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Castle Leslie — Glaslough
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Walled garden, built c.1880, in red brick, and having main entrance at east. Walls of machine-made red brick laid in English Garden Wall bond, with strip buttresses at regular intervals, and having cut limestone copings. Square-headed door openings to north, west and south walls, with original tongue-and-grooved timber doors to some entrances. Integral fireplace with attached chimney to south wall. Main pedestrian entrance overlooks Castle Lake, with flight of cut limestone steps up to garden level with cut limestone copings having arrises. Entranceway comprises square-plan red brick piers with carved limestone course at wall top level of low front wall of garden, carved limestone course at impost level and carved limestone stepped pyramidal caps with decorative cast-iron spikes. Double-leaf gate and similar railings with repeating 'crown of thorns' motif. Front wall of garden terminated by similar piers to those of entrance.

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