Survey Data
Reg No
60260087
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1859 - 1901
Coordinates
323649, 218899
Date Recorded
06/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles extending into terracotta ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on rendered base having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Ballyman House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Ballyman House estate with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely erected in tandem with the refronting of the eponymous farmhouse (see 60260086), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the high pitched near-pyramidal roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a sylvan street scene.