Survey Data
Reg No
11806011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
278825, 224693
Date Recorded
23/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1880, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to centre. Reroofed, c.1970. Now disused with openings boarded-up. Gable-ended roof (gabled to projecting bay). Replacement artificial slate, c.1970. Red clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack. Timber bargeboards to gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Unpainted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Hood moulding over window opening to ground floor projecting bay. Openings now boarded-up. Set back from road in grounds shared with Robertstown House adjacent to gateway. Gravel avenue to south-west. Detached eight-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, c.1880, to north-east on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard. Part reroofed, c.1990. Gable-ended roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridges tiles. Iron vents to ridges. Timber bargeboards to gables. Rendered band to eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1990, to range to south-east. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed openings (oculus openings to gables). Timber fittings. Timber boarded half-doors and double doors.
Appraisal
This gate lodge and range of outbuildings, although in poor condition, are important features in the Robertstown House estate and serve as a reminder of the extent of the farm holding and the prosperity of the builder/owner. The gate lodge, designed in a pared-down Tudor style as identified by the hood moulding to one opening, is in stark contrast to the ornate quality of the main house while the stable range, which appears to have been an evolved building, added to over various periods, emphasises this contrast in detailing. The outbuildings retain much of their original character and, being positioned just off the side of the road immediately to south-west of the village of Robertstown, are prominent and attractive landmarks in the locality.