Survey Data
Reg No
15705404
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1700 - 1771
Coordinates
274846, 99877
Date Recorded
28/01/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, extant 1771, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of tuck pointed limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having stringcourses below ball finial-topped "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping. Now disused. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Loftus Hall.
Appraisal
A gateway not only making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Loftus Hall estate, but also surviving as a repurposed relic of the seventeenth-century estate as evidenced by a sketch (1835-6) by Charles Newport Bolton (1816-84) of County Waterford (cf. 15705406).