Survey Data
Reg No
14921001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
202645, 215828
Date Recorded
08/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan gate lodge, built c.1870. Now in use as an outbuilding. Pitched tiled roof with replacement rainwater goods, yellow brick chimneystack and decorative bargeboards. Random coursed stone walls with limestone quoins. Pointed-arched and square-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds, limestone sills and uPVC windows. Pointed-arched door openings with yellow brick surround, timber battened door and limestone threshold. Site accessed through decorative cast-iron gates supported by limestone piers.
Appraisal
The use of yellow brick and stone creates textural interest in this mid nineteenth-century gate lodge. The decorative bargeboards and pointed-arched window and door openings are attractive decorative features. The adjacent entrance gates now serve a modern house known as "Cummeen Lodge" which was built in the grounds of Coofin House. The former gate lodge together with the entrance gates and neighbouring Coofin House are an important architectural group.