Survey Data
Reg No
13401426
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Farraghroe House
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
219449, 277495
Date Recorded
18/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1850, on T-shaped plan having central projection to the main elevation (west). Originally built to serve Farragh/Farraghroe House, now demolished. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roofs with central rendered chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots. Snecked dressed limestone masonry walls with flush cut limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to north face of projecting bay with timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds to the to the southwest of Ballinalee and to the northwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House. Gateway to front (west) having wrought-iron gate. Associated entrance gates to estate to the northwest (13401456).
Appraisal
This simple gate lodge is formerly served the northwest entrance to Farragh/Farraghroe House, now demolished, and forms an integral element of a group of structures associated with this house. Although modest in form and decoration, this gate lodge is well-built using high quality cut stone masonry. The loss of the early fittings to the majority of the openings somewhat detracts from its visual expression but it retains its early form and character. It is enhanced by the retention of materials such as the natural slate roof and tooled limestone sills. This gate lodge provides an insight into the importance of the house it formerly served, the residence of the Bond family throughout the nineteenth and twentieth until it was sold and subsequently demolished c. 1960. It forms a related pair of structures with the adjacent gateway (13401456) to the northwest, and adds historic interest to the roadscape to the southwest of Ballinalee. It is possible that this gate lodge was built as part of the works carried out at Farragh/Farraghroe House to designs by Nathaniel Montgomery, c. 1850.