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Hope Castle — Castleblayney

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Hope Castle — Castleblayney
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Detached complex-plan double-pile multiple-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 1880, having advanced gabled entrance bay to north-east (front) elevation, with cat-slide roof forming single-storey elevation to north side of this, and having full-height gabled projecting block to south-west elevation, with porch having hipped roof to re-entrant corner. Recent three-bay two-storey over basement extension to north-west corner and unfinished single-storey extension to north. Pitched and hipped roofs having sandstone copings stones, carved sandstone apex stones with wrought-iron decorative finials to gables, and replacement tiles. Raised eyebrow dormer windows. Cut sandstone chimneystacks, with corbelled chimneystack to south-east gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked cut limestone walls with sandstone dressings and projecting plinth course. Chamfered corners at ground floor level of south-east gable having carved convex corbel. Square-headed window openings, some paired, having chamfered sandstone surrounds and recent replacement aluminium windows. Relieving arch over ground floor paired windows to south-east elevation. Square-headed door opening within open entrance porch having square-plan pier, with chamfered sandstone surround and replacement aluminium door. Carved sandstone date plaque over entrance to porch. Door opening on south-west elevation with carved sandstone shouldered square-headed opening with replacement aluminium doors. Front of site enclosed by sandstone plinth wall with cut-sandstone piers and wrought-iron railings. Carved sandstone pier to pedestrian gate opening, carved sandstone piers to avenue entrance. Site entrance located between lodge and shore of Lough Muckno.

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