Survey Data
Reg No
12402849
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
259529, 143961
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1825, with single-bay single-storey concave entrance bay to centre having prostyle diastyle Doric portico on a bowed plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof (continuing into conical section to portico) with rolled lead ridges, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and timber casement windows having lattice glazing. Pair of square-headed door openings behind prostyle diastyle Doric portico (with pair of cut-granite columns) with moulded rendered surrounds, and glazed timber panelled doors. Set back from line of road in grounds shared with Kilmurry House. (ii) Remains of gateway, c.1825, to south comprising pedestrian gateway with pair of cut-granite piers having wrought iron gate with cast-iron finials, entablature, and carved cut-granite cornice supporting blocking course rising to centre.
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale gate lodge exhibiting distinctive attributes redolent of the period of construction including the balanced configuration centred on a Classical portico, the overhanging roof, and so on all of which identify the architectural design value of the composition: the juxtaposition of a concave entrance bay with a bowed portico, the pretty glazing pattern to the openings, and so on further enhance the aesthetic value of the lodge. Forming a neat self-contained group with the remains of an attendant gateway the resulting ensemble makes a positive visual impression at the entrance to the grounds of the Kilmurry House estate.