Survey Data
Reg No
20909643
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
146840, 56645
Date Recorded
02/12/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1870, having lean-to extension to rear (south-west). Now ruinous. Pitched slate roof with gabled half dormer windows to front (north-east) elevation, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Red brick block-and-start surround to window to rear elevation with cut limestone sill on cut limestone corbels. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to front elevation. Rubble stone boundary wall to south-west.
Appraisal
Built to serve Gurteen House, this gate lodge would appear to have been built when the road between Macroom and Bandon was diverted, apparently to avoid passing close to main house which was then owned by an engineer with influential connections. The lodge is simple in design and is greatly enlivened by its unusually adorned window with corbelled carved sill.