Survey Data
Reg No
16400601
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Loughbray Cottage
Original Use
Hunting/fishing lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
313628, 216434
Date Recorded
11/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay one and a half-storey picturesque sporting lodge, built c.1850 around the fabric of an earlier dwelling. The building is rendered with overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboards. The sporting lodge comprises of a series of ‘wings’ each with its own gabled roof; there are a number of projecting square bays one of which has a balcony over and another on the first floor which is gabled and which is supported on stilts. The front door is now covered with a later glazed conservatory / porch. Window openings are flat-headed. Frames are generally mullioned and transomed with panes and these are mainly margined. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are rendered with plain caps and very large clay pots. The sporting lodge is set at the head of a long driveway overlooking Loughbray Lower. The south front looks on to a wide paved terrace.
Appraisal
The setting of this delightful sporting lodge is picture postcard perfect. It is a very good example of a well preserved mid 19th-century picturesque style sporting lodge.