Survey Data
Reg No
15702624
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Ross Grove
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1890 - 1903
Coordinates
298095, 136798
Date Recorded
17/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, designed 1895; extant 1903, on a square plan. "Restored", 2004. Replacement hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered red brick English bond chimney stacks having rendered rounded capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves. Roughcast walls on red brick header bond cushion course on red brick English bond base with dentilated rendered band to eaves. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and red brick voussoirs framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with red brick header bond chamfered sills, and monolithic surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Brownswood with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A bungalow-like gate lodge erected to a design by Sir Thomas Drew (1838-1910) of Clare Street, Dublin (Williams 1994, 378), contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Brownswood estate with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact near square plan form centred on a canopied doorcase. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.