Main Record - County Monaghan
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| Description Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, built c.1860. Later used as post office. Full-height gabled open porch to front (west) elevation, and full-height two-bay extension to rear elevation, and with gable fronted dormer windows to attic. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs with offset red brick chimneystacks, decorative timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls with cut-stone quoins, cut-stone walls to porch with chamfered edges. Square-headed window openings with chamfered cut-stone surrounds, render surrounds to window openings to extension. Timber casement windows with quarrel glazing. Tudor-arch opening to porch, having chamfered edges, tiled floor to porch, and square-headed door opening with timber battened door with Tudor-arch detail. Blank shield plaque over porch opening. Twentieth-century decorative railing on rendered plinth wall with brick coping forming site boundary to front, with similar pedestrian gate. Pedestrian entrance attached to south elevation of house, leading to garden, comprising cut-stone elliptical arch over decorative metal pedestrian gate. Recent red brick garages to south. Appraisal A distinctive and notable feature on the road, this former gate lodge indicates its original function by addressing its front elevation to the avenue leading to Dawson Grove, rather than addressing the main road. Unusually, it functioned as a post office as well as a gate lodge. It is one of several structures associated with Dawson Grove, subsequently known as Dartrey House. Although the demesne is now fragmented and the country house demolished, a large group of associated structures remains, including this, the stables, the remains of the ice house, and the chapel, which would all have combined to provide a measure of self-sufficiency to the inhabitants. Like the other structures, this gate lodge uses locally made red brick and well cut stone, indicating the skilled craftsmanship available in the nineteenth century. The soft hues of the red brick add a patina of age to the structure, while the intricately carved bargeboards create a sense of drama and interest, enhancing the site's architectural heritage value. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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