Survey Data
Reg No
14936013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Castle Bernard
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Hotel
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
219664, 205886
Date Recorded
09/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey triple-gabled former gate lodge to Castle Bernard, built c.1835, with gabled rear elevation and extension to rear. Now in use as hotel spa for Kinnitty Castle. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and decorative bargeboards. Ruled and lined rendered walls with stucco quoins, painted sandstone string courses and paired corbels. Projecting central gable with sandstone quatrefoils flanking entrance and colonnettes to corners. Square-headed window openings with punched sandstone surrounds, label mouldings and timber sash and lattice windows. Tudor arched coved door surround with grouped colonnettes to reveals and ogee-arched door opening with timber double door and sandstone threshold. Adjacent entrance gates to former demesne comprises replacement wrought-iron gates supported by square-profile rendered piers flanked by pedestrian entrances and ruled and lined rendered quadrant walls with tooled sandstone coping. Random coursed sandstone boundary wall to demesne.
Appraisal
This gate lodge provide a suitably impressive entrance to Kinnitty Castle and hints at what the visitor to the castle might expect of the main house. The decorative elements of the gate lodge enhance and express the architectural form of the structure. The pierced bargeboards and corbelled course and elaborate arched door opening in particular enliven the structure and contributes to the architectural significance of the lodge. This gate lodge together with the main castle, walled gardens, outbuildings and the other gate lodge form in important group of related structures.