Survey Data
Reg No
13309024
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
225962, 271652
Date Recorded
17/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1880, now disused, having open cast-iron porch to front elevation (southwest) and extensions to the northwest elevation. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier gate lodge (c. 1725) to site. Hipped artificial slate roofs with decorative slate patterning, terracotta ridge capping and a central diagonal rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls over render plinth. Square-headed window openings with chamfered heads, render block-and-start surrounds, painted stone sills and replacement windows. Paired window opening to the southeast elevation. Central square-headed opening with render surround, timber panelled door, overlight, limestone step and tiled threshold. Porch comprising twisted cast-iron colonnettes with decorative caps, decorative floral motif cast-iron panels above with pointed arch opening and hipped slate roof. Set back from road at an angle to northeast of entrance to Edgeworthstown House (13309029). Main house located to the east. Rendered boundary wall with cast-iron railings over and with rendered piers (on square-plan) with ball finials to road-frontage (northwest).
Appraisal
This modest and quite plain gate lodge is enlivened by the elaborate open cast-iron porch, which gives this building a presence that belies it small-scale. The diagonal chimneystack is an interesting feature that creates a central focus to the roofline. The present gate lodge is probably of late nineteenth century date but it is built on the site of an earlier gate lodge. It forms part of an extensive group of structures associated with Edgeworthstown House (13309029) and represents an integral element of the built heritage of the Edgeworthstown area. It occupies a prominent site, and together with the piers and cast-iron railings, forms a notable feature on the streetscape.