Survey Data
Reg No
20906516
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
186585, 76284
Date Recorded
07/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch bridge, built c. 1820, with curved rendered rubble stone walls having dressed limestone platbands to external elevations and dressed limestone stringcourses to interior elevations, carved limestone circular-profile piers, cut limestone balustraded parapet, round-headed arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs and flanked by rusticated limestone engaged columns. Square-profile cut and carved limestone pier to site. Central entrance consisting of circular-profile cut limestone piers with double-leaf vehicular gates, flanked by pedestrian gates, in turn flanked by square-profile cut limestone piers. Lined-and-ruled sweep walls. Pair of detached five-bay single-storey former gate lodges, to site, having projecting hipped-roofed block to east of west gate lodge, and to west of east gate lodge. Recent glazed front porch to east gate lodge, recent column to entrance of west gate lodge. Now in use as houses. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rusticated limestone chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled render walls with dressed limestone plinth courses and flush platbands to projecting blocks. Segmental-headed window openings, those to projecting blocks having carved limestone surrounds incorporating voussoirs and flanking pilasters, with cut limestone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber doors.
Appraisal
An unusually elaborate and finely executed bridge, set within the curtilage of the former Ballyedmond House demesne. Elaborately carved voussoirs are evidence of skill and craftsmanship and add artistic interest. It forms an interesting group with the altered gate lodges and entrance. Part of group of demesne structures associated with now demolished Ballyedmond House, it is an interesting addition to the local architectural heritage.