Survey Data
Reg No
13402722
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
219648, 255442
Date Recorded
07/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge serving Newcastle House (13402709), built c. 1860, having central breakfront/entrance porch to front elevation (southwest) and canted bay window to southeast elevation. Now in use as private house with single-storey extensions to the rear. Hipped natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystack. Bowed natural slate roofs over central breakfront/porch and to canted bay window. Roughcast rendered walls, now covered in vegetation. Segmental-headed window openings with decorative small pane fixed windows and having limestone sills. Square-headed openings to canted bay window with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and having limestone sills. Round-headed opening to breakfront/porch having timber panelled double-doors with spoked fanlight over. Cut stone step to doorway. Set back from road to the northeast side of associated gateway (13402723), and to the southeast of Newcastle House at straight of long straight approach avenue to house. Located to the southeast of Ballymahon.
Appraisal
This attractive and well-proportioned former gate lodge, of mid-nineteenth century date, was originally built to serve the (new) main entrance to Newcastle House (13402709). It has been well-maintained and retains its early form and architectural form. It also retains much of its early fabric including attractive and ornate multi-paned windows to the front elevation (southwest) and timber sliding sash windows to the bay window. This building is a good example of the language of classical architecture stripped to its barest fundamental elements to create a modest dwelling in a subtle style. The elegant doorway with spoked fanlight over provides an attractive central focus. This building forms a part of a pair of related structures along with the gateway (13402723) to the southwest/south, and part of a wider group of structures associated with Newcastle House (13402709). This building may have been built by Laurence King-Harman (1816 - 1878), who inherited Newcastle House c. 1850.