Survey Data
Reg No
41400610
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Trough Lodge
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1775 - 1845
Coordinates
267289, 341314
Date Recorded
02/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Five-bay two-storey house, built c.1781 and remodelled c.1840, flanked by gable-fronted single-storey wings, adjoining house by screen walls in Palladian style. Pedimented full-height central bay with projecting single-storey porch to its front. Recent extensions and square-plan four-stage Italianate campanile to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof to main block, with rendered chimneystacks and having replacement uPVC eaves course. Hipped slate roof with timber eaves supports and cast-iron weather vane to campanile. Hipped slate roof to porch to front. Mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks and clay chimneypots to side-wings. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor to front of house and side-wings. Render string course, squared tooled sandstone to first floor. Harl rendered walls to screen walls, pediments and internal elevations of gable-fronted wings, coursed rubble stone to external elevations of wings, and smooth render with render quoins and plinth courses to rear and side elevations of main block. Coursed rubble limestone to campanile having render string courses between stages. Render crest to north-east elevation of porch to front, with tooled limestone surround. Pointed openings to pediments of wings, tooled limestone surrounds and sills, blocked. Round-headed window openings to front having painted tooled limestone surrounds and sills, and replacement timber windows. Round-headed window openings to screen walls, one with replacement uPVC window, others blocked. Pointed-arch openings to front elevations of side wings and first floor to central bay, having painted tooled stone surrounds, sills and timber tracery to windows. Round-headed window opening to pediment of central bay, with timber tracery to window. Square-headed window openings to north-east and south-west elevations of hall connecting to front porch, with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings to south-west elevation of porch having replacement uPVC window, painted sill and shouldered render hood-moulding. Square-headed window openings to rear elevations with render sills, reveals and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window openings to third and fourth stages of campanile having tooled limestone surrounds, sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to fourth stage to rear of tower, with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed lancet windows to front of tower, tooled limestone surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to second stage with red brick surrounds, masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to side-wings, some blocked. Doorway to front comprising pair of render engaged Doric-style columns on square-plan plinths, supporting painted masonry lintel cornice over square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to screen walls with tooled limestone surrounds and keystones. Stepped screen wall to north-east of house, having coursed rubble walls with patches of render and render capping, and square-headed niches flanking central round-headed niche.
Appraisal
This house was built in the early eighteenth century for the Anketells, who became one of the primary landowning families in the area. Major Matthew John Anketell was listed in Thom’s Directory for 1862 as a Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for County Monaghan. The house was remodelled in the mid-nineteenth century, at which point the campanile was altered to match the Victorian stable block, and the wings were rebuilt in Gothic design. A strong sense of symmetry was created by the side wings and screen walls, central pedimented bay and projecting porch, a layout iconic of the Palladian style of architecture. Contextualised by the adjacent stable block and a gate lodge, this country house is of high quality architectural design and makes a strong contribution to the landscape.