Survey Data
Reg No
60230113
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1895 - 1900
Coordinates
322379, 227274
Date Recorded
28/11/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, designed 1897; built 1898, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height hipped gabled projecting breakfront; pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height returns centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (north). Vacant, 1911. Renovated, 2010-1, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement hipped gabled slate roof on an E-shaped plan including flat roofs to window openings to dormer attic centred on replacement hipped gabled slate roof (breakfront), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, granite ashlar chimney stacks having cut-granite capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on paired nail head-detailed purlins, rooflights (north), and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Replacement rendered walls on rendered cut-granite chamfered plinth with rendered buttresses having rendered "slated" coping. Paired pointed-arch openings (breakfront) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals centred on cast-iron colonette pillar on cut-granite chamfered plinth. Square-headed door opening into gate lodge with carved timber surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window opening (gable), cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement one-over-one sash window. Square-headed window openings, cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder), cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Deans Grange Cemetery.
Appraisal
A gate lodge erected to a design by Carter Draper (1845-1902) of Rathmines (The Irish Builder 15th December 1897, 237) illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of Deans Grange Cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century with the architectural value of the composition, one 'rendered necessary by the enlargement of the cemetery' (ibid., 237), suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint centred on an arcaded breakfront; the honey-coloured granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the restrained timber work embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a self-contained group alongside the opposing waiting room (see 60230112) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Deans Grange Road.