Survey Data
Reg No
12402842
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Kilfane
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1903 - 1948
Coordinates
259807, 145143
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1948, on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced lower porch; two-bay single-storey side elevations. Now disused. Hipped slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), pressed or rolled iron ridges centred on rendered red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable (porch), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered coursed rubble stone walls with concealed brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with repointed brick voussoirs framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed brick block-and-start surrounds framing sic-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Kilfane House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Kilfane House estate in the early twentieth century with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact square plan form centred on a windbreak-like porch; and the high pitched near-pyramidal roof. A period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.