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Rosebank

Demesne walls/gates/railings

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Rosebank in Oldorchard still has elaborate gates guarding a house that’s been demolished. The lodge is there too, in case someone needs to come out and explain that you’re not expected, and neither is the house.
Entrance to former house, c.1830, now demolished. Elaborate cast-iron gates with carved stone-capped rendered piers having recessed panels. Rendered, ruled and lined quadrant screen walls with stone coping and similar terminating piers. Single-storey buildings within each re-entrant corner, three-bay gate lodge with lean-to slate roof to north, outbuilding to south. Smooth rendered walls. Ogee-arched doorways with timber tongue and groove doors having iron fittings. Rough dressed blocks to parapets. Avenue carried over canalised river by single-arch stone bridge with cast-iron lancet style railings on plinth wall. Monolithic granite octagonal terminating piers with carriage lamps to west end.
Although the house has been demolished, this surviving associated fabric at the entranceway is a most valuable group. It retains many noteworthy features, particularly the various cut stone and cast-iron elements, and the ingenious positioning of the lodge and outbuilding which is highly unusual.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11216051

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Dave Addey at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • AndrewH at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Coffeecup2, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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