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Bessmount Park — DRUMRUTAGH

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Bessmount Park — DRUMRUTAGH
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Detached four-bay split-level gate lodge, built c.1770, having single-storey front elevation, two-storey to south-east end bay, and two-storey over basement rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick chimneystacks, decorative timber bargeboards, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron finials. Harl-rendered walls having tooled stone plinth course to front elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, with tripartite and bipartite timber casement windows, tooled stone sills to front, render sills to rear. Red brick porch addition to front having canted corners and square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Square-headed replacement timber door to north-east elevation opening onto render platform. Square-headed openings at basement level to rear with timber battened doors.

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