Survey Data
Reg No
20503408
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1860 - 1870
Coordinates
166881, 71400
Date Recorded
10/04/1994
Date Updated
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Description
Three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c. 1865, with annexe to rear. Hipped roofs with deep overhanging eaves and eaves course. Rendered chimney stack with oversailing courses. Painted render finish with pilasters and deep plinth band. Bay window to north elevation. Gabled entrance porch with plain barge boards and tooled deep threshold step. Square headed openings, window having cills. Windows are timber sliding sash Wyatt style, to all but south elevation which are timber sliding sash two over two pane. Timber panelled entrance door. Within Bishop's Palace grounds. Limestone gate piers with sunk panels and carved cornices, cast iron railings with pair of gates.
Appraisal
Well maintained late-nineteenth century gatelodge to the Church of Ireland Bishop's Palace. Significant in retaining much original fabric, such as its unusual windows and tooled step to entrance door. Important also for its association with St. Finbar's Cathedral and for its contribution to the character of the streetscape.