Survey Data
Reg No
40820008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
234053, 426594
Date Recorded
14/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway serving St. John’s (house not in survey), erected c. 1880, comprising decorative cast-iron gate posts with chamfered corners, torus mouldings, chamfer stops, surmounted by finials over (pine cones?), and with decorative cast-iron double-gates with fleur-de-lys finials over. Central vehicular gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by pedestrian gateways having cast-iron gate posts and gates of the same design. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to either side having painted coping over. Located to the west of associated house, and towards the centre of the Fahan.
Appraisal
This good-quality late Victorian gateway, of simple but attractive design, survives in particularly good condition, and is an interesting feature in the streetscape to the centre of the straggling village of Fahan. It represents an interesting and increasingly rare surviving example of mass-produced late-nineteenth cast-ironwork with elaborate gate posts and gates with fleur-de-lys finials. This gateway was erected to serve St. John’s (not in survey) to the east but was relocated to provide a wider entrance to the house (now in use as a restaurant and guest house). Of technical and artistic value for the quality of the castings, this gateway also contributes to the aesthetic diversity of the streetscape.