Survey Data
Reg No
15402002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Clondrisse
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
252531, 256639
Date Recorded
14/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1885, with canted bay windows flanking central projecting gable-fronted entrance porch with decorative bargeboards to entrance front (north). Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods. Ruled-and-line rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired sash windows to centre (north) of canted bays. Ogee-headed door opening having timber sheeted door with geometric fanlight over with timber trefoil design. Set back from road edge (north) with dressed limestone gate piers, on square-plan, with capstones over having wrought-iron double gates to the north. Rubble stone boundary walls to road frontage. Located to the north of Clondrisse House (15402003).
Appraisal
An appealing gate lodge, of late nineteenth-century appearance, which retains its early form and a very picturesque character. The canted bay windows and the projecting porch with a Gothic Revival-style fanlight and highly decorative bargeboards contribute strongly to the charm and to the architectural design quality of the composition. The good quality entrance gates and the rubble stone boundary wall to the north complete the setting. It is unusual to find a gate lodge of this date and form in rural Westmeath, making this a rare building type within the county. This gate lodge and attendant gates forms part of an interesting group of structures associated with Clondrisse House (15402003) and represents and integral element of the architectural heritage of Westmeath and remains an attractive feature on the rural landscape to the northwest of Killucan.