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Castle/fortified house in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1560–1850

Largely detached mainly three-storey building, core being castle of 1561, comprising main block having three-bay principal (south) elevation, seven-bay west elevation (two bays at each end projecting forward, possibly c. 1740), blank north elevation and three-bay east elevation with square-plan block at northeast corner built c. 1780 and having three-bay east elevation and multiple-bay north elevation; further single-storey addition to north (c. 1780, recently given first floor to west half), three-bay two-storey block to southeast of c. 1780 and having two-stage porch with balcony above to front (south), and with recent single-storey addition to east side. Building altered c. 1840 and more recently. Connected to later Victorian buildings at northeast corner. Hipped natural slate roofs, partly hidden behind castellated rendered parapet, having dormer windows to east pitch, and rooflights to west pitch; rendered chimneystacks located along external walls, with some clay pots; clerestory apparent to flat roof to east; and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roofs to recent additions. Ruled-and-lined render to walling to front (south) and side elevations, having channelled render quoins, with moulded render stringcourses to first and second floors and to parapet; rendered walling elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills to ground floor, two surviving six-over-s

Type:
Castle/fortified house

Period:
1560–1850

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.37°N, 6.25°W

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