Survey Data

Reg No

15401223


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

Garden structure misc


In Use As

Garden structure misc


Date

1810 - 1830


Coordinates

245553, 258427


Date Recorded

20/11/2004


Date Updated

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Description

Detached three-bay single-storey Gothic Revival loggia\summerhouse, built c.1820, comprising central Tudor pointed carriage arch flanked by pointed-arched pedestrian arches to either side. Constructed of ashlar limestone with ashlar limestone detailing including four buttresses surmounted by ashlar pinnacles. Located a short distance to the east of Knockdrin Castle within the formal garden grounds. Rubble limestone boundary wall connects to turret on circular plan to north.

Appraisal

An attractive and intentionally romantic garden feature. It is built in a simple Gothic Revival-style, creating the impression that it is an older, picturesque ruin. This pretty garden structure was deliberately placed to terminate the view of the formal gardens from the east side of Knockdrin Castle. Structures of this nature were an important design feature in the larger demesnes in Ireland dating from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. It forms part of an important group of related structures within the Knockdrin Castle demesne and remains and integral element of the architectural heritage of Westmeath.