Survey Data
Reg No
15311013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Mullingar District Lunatic Asylum
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Office
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
245032, 253681
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with St. Loman’s Hospital (15311017), built c.1898, having a gable-fronted single-bay entrance porch to the centre of the main façade (east) and with a projecting gabled-fronted bay to the north end of the main elevation having a canted bay window. Modern glazed canopy to the south end of the main façade. Now in use as offices. Pitched natural slate roofs with overhanging bracketed eaves, pierced barge boards, decorative ridge cresting and moulded rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with raised ‘belt-buckle’-style quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Doorcase to the south face of porch. Set back from road in hospital grounds adjacent to main gates (rebuilt) serving St. Loman’s Hospital (15311017). Located to the southwest of the main hospital building and to the northeast of Mullingar.
Appraisal
A simple but well-detailed Gothic-Revival gate lodge associated with St. Loman’s Hospital (15311017). It retains its early from and some interesting details despite extensive recent alterations resulting in the loss of the original fabric to the openings. The decorative barge boards, the ridge cresting and the moulded chimneystacks add interest to this simple building. The ‘belt-buckle’-style quoins to the corners are a recurring architectural theme in Mullingar. This building probably dates to the late nineteenth-century alterations to St. Loman’s Hospital (carried out to designs by Joyce and Parry) and forms an integral part of interesting collection of buildings in this hospital complex.