Survey Data
Reg No
30402915
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
137337, 257525
Date Recorded
15/01/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, having pedimented breakfront entrance, and with lean-to extension to rear. Served Castlegrove country house on opposite side of road to demesne. Hipped slate roof with central chimneystack of limestone ashlar, with cornice, wide eaves and large prominent brackets and cast-iron gutters. Painted lined and ruled rendered walls, with cut limestone plinth. Square-headed widened window openings with replacement uPVC frames, and tooled limestone sills. Breakfront of ashlar limestone, with stepped plinths, and containing segmental-headed doorway set within similar archway, with replacement uPVC door. Cornice of breakfront acts as base for pediment.
Appraisal
This is a very attractive mid-nineteenth-century gate lodge in good condition, albeit with replacment windows and door. The fine cut limestone details give an indication of the quality of the country house which it served.