Survey Data
Reg No
13401017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
228371, 279693
Date Recorded
24/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1820, having bowed single-bay side elevations (northwest and southeast) and a later projecting gable-fronted porch addition to the front (southwest). Now disused. Formerly serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House, now demolished. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber supports/brackets, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and multi-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed window opening to porch with tooled limestone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening to porch having double leaf timber battened door. Set back from road adjacent to entrance gates (13401018) formerly serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House at start of a long approach avenue to the southeast of the site of the house. Located to the southwest of Granard.
Appraisal
Although now derelict and out of use, this charming former gate lodge retains its early form and character. The delicately bowed side elevations and the low profile roof with overhanging eaves give it a distinctly Regency character and suggest that it was originally built during the first decades of the nineteenth century. The projecting porch was probably a later addition. This gate lodge and its associated entrance gates (13401018) form an attractive pair in the rural landscape to the southwest of Granard, and represent part of a wider group of structures associated with Cloonfin/Clonfin House (demolished) and the Thompson family who lived there throughout the nineteenth century.