Survey Data
Reg No
50060362
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Previous Name
Glenmaroon
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
309496, 235421
Date Recorded
07/08/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Entrance gates and screen, erected c.1860, with adjacent gate lodge at junction of Knockmaroon Road and Knockmaroon Hill as front entrance to house, now part of Saint Michael's School. Pair of decorative scrolled wrought-iron gates (possibly early twentieth-century replacements) hung on large granite ashlar piers with banded blocks, pulvinated frieze and moulded capstones surmounted by over-sized ball finials. Decorative wrought-iron railings flank entrance, laid out on S-curve and set on granite ashlar plinth wall with bull-nose coping and terminated to either end with rectangular-plan granite ashlar piers. Rubble stone walls enclose site to either side with stacked coping broken by pedestrian opening to north having wrought-iron gate with details matching that of railings. Knockmaroon gate lodge and gateway located short distance to north.
Appraisal
Highly decorative entrance screen with high-quality granite piers and possibly later decorative iron gates. No longer in use, the entrance screen is set perpendicular to the disused gate lodge and forms an appealing, if competitive, composition with Knockmaroon Gate to the north.