Survey Data
Reg No
14935013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Woodville originally Woodfield House
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
205868, 207052
Date Recorded
14/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1810. Hipped slate roof with paired timber modillions at eave course. Rendered walls with square-headed door and window openings with timber casement lattice windows and stone sills. Set behind square-headed ashlar limestone gate piers with fluted capitals, plinth walls with spear-headed cast-iron railings and gates.
Appraisal
This highly crafted gate lodge forms part of a group of attendant structures within the Tullynisk House demesne. Annotated as Woodfield on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map and as Woodville on the nineteenth-century second edition of the Ordnance Survey map, this country house is now known as Tullynisk House. Belonging to the Rosse Estate at Birr, it is part of the architectural and historical heritage of the town.