Survey Data
Reg No
13402362
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
214822, 263174
Date Recorded
02/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey (with attic level) gate lodge associated with Lislea House (13402305), built c. 1860. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and having central brick chimneystack. Rubble stone walls, partially rendered, with flush roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with brick reveals, six-over-six pane timber sash windows and stone sills. Central square-headed doorway to front elevation (southwest) having timber battened door with overlight, brick reveals and having dressed limestone plinth blocks. Moulded cut stone lintel over doorway. Located to the southwest of Lislea House (13402305), adjacent to northeast of associated gateway (not in survey). Set back from road in shared grounds to the northwest of Barry and the east of Keenagh.
Appraisal
This simple but well-proportioned gate lodge, of mid-to-late nineteenth-century appearance, retains much of its early character and form. It also retains much of its salient fabric including timber sash windows and a natural slate roof. The moulded lintel over the door is an interesting and unusual feature, and it may have been moved here from another location (possibly from earlier house at Lislea). This building forms part of a group of structures associated with Lislea House, along with the house (13402305) itself, the complex of outbuildings (13402306) and the unusual thatched summer house to site. This building is an interesting feature in the rural landscape to the east of Keenagh, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.