Survey Data
Reg No
20901810
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Cultural, Historical
Original Use
Demesne walls/gates/railings
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1875
Coordinates
169078, 110251
Date Recorded
08/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of gateways, erected c. 1870, giving access to St Colman's Church of Ireland church and to now demolished Bowen's Court country house. Comprising round-profile cast-iron piers having wrought-iron double-leaf gates and short sections of railings. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, dated 1873, to east, having gabled breakfront entrance and recent flat-roofed rear additions, and now in use as private house. Lodge has hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, replacement uPVC rainwater goods, timber finial to recent decorative bargeboards, painted smooth rendered walls having exposed ashlar limestone to breakfront with date plaque inscribed 'RCB 1873', square-headed window and door openings, having limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows, and brick-dressed replacement uPVC door. One of the three entrances into Bowen's Court demesne.
Appraisal
These pleasant late nineteenth-century entrance gates are notable for their slight form, slender short iron piers instead of the more expected substantial stone type. The adjoining gate lodge, with its date-stone, forms an important part of an ensemble which links the demesne house and its church, at the home of the writer, Elizabeth Bowen.