Survey Data
Reg No
13401022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
227026, 279219
Date Recorded
24/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1850, having canted front façade (northeast). Formerly associated with Cloonfin/Clonfin House (now demolished). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof, now partially collapsed. Roughly coursed dressed limestone walls with remnants of roughcast render remaining. Pointed arch window openings with dressed limestone voussoirs and tooled cut limestone sills, original fittings now gone. Square-headed door opening to centre of canted front elevation, fittings now gone. Setback from road in own grounds to the southwest of Granard. Located across the road to the southwest from former entrance and approach avenue serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House (now demolish).
Appraisal
Although now derelict and out of use, this charming former gate lodge retains its early form and character. This lodge appear to date to the first half of the nineteenth but the canted front was added sometime later, perhaps c. 1850 (Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map 1838). The pointed arch window openings to the canted section lend it a muted Gothic theme. This gate lodge forms part of a wider group of structures associated with Cloonfin/Clonfin House (demolished) and the Thompson family. Although ruinous, its architectural quality is still apparent and it is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.