Survey Data
Reg No
12325039
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Bessborough House
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
246357, 121661
Date Recorded
05/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey gabled central bay having canted bay window. Refenestrated. Now in private residential use. Pitched slate roof (gabled to central bay) with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered chimney stacks on rendered base, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls with rock-faced cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window) with painted cut-stone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from line of road in grounds originally shared with Bessborough House (Kildalton College) having random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site with rounded coping, and iron gate.
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale gate lodge exhibiting distinctive characteristics identifying a stylistic comparability with a contemporary (c.1900) lodge (12325002/KK-39-25-02) in the grounds of Bessborough House (Kildalton College), thereby attesting to the continued improvement of the estate in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Although having passed into private ownership the house has remained reasonably well maintained retaining the original composition attributes together with most of the historic fabric, thereby making a positive impression on the side of the road leading out of Piltown to the south-east.