Survey Data
Reg No
40802009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Demesne walls/gates/railings
In Use As
Demesne walls/gates/railings
Date
1820 - 1860
Coordinates
253243, 449209
Date Recorded
16/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway serving Culdaff House (see 40802011), erected c. 1840, comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting smooth rendered plinths and cut stone coping over surmounted by rubble stone capping, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with spear finials over. Metal plaque to exterior of pier to the north. Pedestrian gateway adjacent to the north comprising roughcast rendered rubble stone gate pier (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over, and with wrought-iron gate; cut stone lintel over pedestrian gateway. Substantial sections of roughcast rendered demesne walls having projecting coping over to the north. Rendered boundary wall aligns south side of approach avenue of Culdaff House to the east, low rubble stone wall with gate piers aligning avenue to the north. Altered single-storey gate lodge (not in survey), built c. 1900, located adjacent to the north of gateway. Located to the east of Culdaff and to the west of Culdaff House. Secondary gateway (see 40802016) and attendant gate lodge (see 40802015) to the south-east of house.
Appraisal
This simple gateway serves the main entrance to Culdaff House (see 40802011), and forms part of a group of structures associated with this eighteenth-century house. It survives in good condition with tall rendered gate piers and attractive wrought-iron gates with spear\arrow finials that are good examples of ironmongery at the time of erection. The simple pedestrian gate adjacent to the north is notable for the good quality wrought-iron gate that stylistically mirrors those to the main vehicular gateway, and for the curiously low cut stone lintel over. The substantial sections of demesne boundary walls and walls aligning the approach avenue to the house may be contemporaneous with the altered late eighteenth-century house itself, and add substantially to the context and setting. The plain altered gate lodge (not in survey) adjacent to the north is later than the gateway and the boundary walls, and was probably built around 1900 when George Robert Young (1834-1912) was in residence at Culdaff House. This gateway is an interesting addition to the roadscape along the main approach route into Culdaff from the north-east, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.