Survey Data
Reg No
15702929
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
274558, 131358
Date Recorded
11/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack having lichen-covered stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Pointed-arch window openings with no sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with rough hewn shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Ballyanne House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge surviving as an interesting relic of the Ballyanne House estate following the demolition (1943) of the eponymous country house (see 15702925), '[a] handsome seat…finely situated on the brow of a richly wooded eminence [commanding] an extensive prospect' (Lewis 1837 I, 122), with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the "pointed" profile of the openings underpinning a contemporary Georgian Gothic theme. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15702930) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.