Survey Data
Reg No
13002328
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Saint Mel's Diocesan Seminary
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
213557, 275265
Date Recorded
01/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1870, with central projecting gabled porch to the front façade (north). Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched roof to porch. Rendered walls, lined-and-ruled. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed entrance opening to porch with timber battened door. Situated at the entrance gateway (13008011) to the grounds of St. Mel's College (13003002). Located to the southwest of the college.
Appraisal
This simple late nineteenth-century gate lodge retains its original form, character and fabric. It forms part of a group of related structures within the St. Mel’s College complex, the former diocesan seminary, and it makes a positive contribution to the built heritage of Longford Town.