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West Lodge of Gordon Castle (NJ35NW0010) designed by John Baxter in 1791-2. Entrance arch, crenellated screen walls and flanking lodges with modern rear additions. Tooled ashlar, polished ashlar dressings with harled additions at rear. Tall central crenellated triumphal arch linked to flanking single storey, single bay lodges by screen wall. Lodges linked to quadrants by continuation of screen wall. Single pedestrian entrance each side of main entrance and single window of each lodge, the latter set in shallow round-headed panel. Rear has a square single bay, mirrored lodges project at rear, each with entrance facing driveway and set-back crenellated elevation with additional entrance fronting modern rear additions. Original doors and windows set in shallow round-headed panels, 12-pane glazing. Rear coped wallhead stacks and shallow piended roofs masked by crenellated wall heads, slate roofs to modern additions.
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