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Dublin Castle — Cork Hill

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Dublin Castle — Cork Hill
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Entrance gate and screen, built c. 1753, connected to buildings that project forward to each side. Central round-headed vehicular archway flanked by giant Doric angle pilasters surmounted by broken pediment. Flanking low brick screen walls set back, each containing pedimented pedestrian doorway. Banded rusticated limestone walling to archway rising from plinth with moulded coping, Flemish bond brickwork to flanking walls on moulded capped limestone plinths, and with limestone copings on limestone platband, latter continuing around mid-facade of adjoining buildings. Brick flanks and soffit to archway, and plain ashlar to north side. Pediment contains concave tapered pedestal carrying cast-lead statue. Square-headed door pedestrian openings, each having moulded eared architrave, plain frieze, triangular pediment, and timber double-leaf door with three raised-and-fielded panels. Vehicular archway has wrought-iron double-leaf gate, concave coping and forged finials. Stone sett paving to south, and brick sett paving to archway and to north.

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