Survey Data
Reg No
15400912
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
267167, 264773
Date Recorded
13/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Entrance gates serving Heathstown House (15400911), erected c.1850, comprising wrought-iron double gates to centre, supported on cast-iron open work gate piers, flanked to either side by curved sections of cast-iron screen railing, on concave plan. Former pedestrian entrance, having cast-iron gate, lies adjacent to the north of central carriage entrance. Remains of single-storey gate lodge lies across road to the east, now disused, having cast-iron entrance gates. Located to the east of Heathstown House at start of long approach avenue. Located to the southeast of Clonmellon.
Appraisal
A fine set of entrance gates and railings, which forms a suitably elegant entrance to Heathstown House (15400911). These interesting gates display very high levels of ironmongery and have an unusual combination of wrought-iron and cast-iron elements, which are of some technical and artistic merit. These gates date to the mid nineteenth-century and were probably built at the same time as the (disused) gate lodge to the east was constructed. This gate along with the associated railings, makes an pleasing visual statement in the rural countryside to the southeast of Clonmellon and forms part of an interesting group of structures associated with Heathstown House.