Survey Data
Reg No
12003009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
250281, 156431
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, c.1800, comprising paired unpainted rendered piers with iron double gates, unpainted roughcast curved flanking walls incorporating square-headed pedestrian gateway to east (having cut-limestone block-and-start surround with keystone, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door), and unpainted rendered outer piers leading to unpainted roughcast boundary wall. Extensively renovated, pre-1992. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Good Shepherd Centre (Loreto Convent).
Appraisal
Dating to a period when the Saint James's Park House estate was briefly adapted to use as a Diocesan college known as Saint Canice's Academy an elegantly-composed gateway retains most of the original form together with some of the historic fabric including an appealing Classically-derived doorcase enhancing the streetscape value of Church Lane.