Survey Data
Reg No
41301063
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Previous Name
Glaslough House
Original Use
Boathouse
In Use As
Boathouse
Date
1875 - 1895
Coordinates
272290, 341667
Date Recorded
26/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached boathouse at west side of Glaslough Lake, erected c.1885. Rectangular in plan, open to lake gable. Pitched slate roof supported on arch-braced timber king-post trusses with struts, and spandrels to arching having decorative piercing and supported on carved timber corbels. Projecting roof to lake-ward gable supported on curving braces and has drop ornament. Walls of timber-frame construction, with chamfered posts, rails, heads and braces, with infilled tongue-and-grooved boards laid to present lozenge patterns, supported on snecked squared limestone walling and having chamfered cut-stone copings, with buttresses to corners and mid-points of long elevations with decorative cast-iron scroll brackets adding further bracing to timber walls. Square-headed timber battened door to landward gable, with cut limestone threshold.
Appraisal
This boathouse forms part of the collection of interesting demesne features at Castle Leslie. Its medieval-style structure and detailing is notable, and the quality of timber dressing and carving is evident. It was constructed to make use of the lake as a pleasure ground.