Survey Data
Reg No
31311801
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1915 - 1923
Coordinates
116886, 265354
Date Recorded
13/07/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1923, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch with single-bay (north-west) or two-bay (south-east) single-storey side elevations. Undergoing renovation, 2011, to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof on an L-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping, bargeboards to gable, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered strips to corners. Camber-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one sash windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Creagh House with dragged cut-limestone cylindrical piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed cornices below capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron railings.
Appraisal
A gate lodge not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the much diminished Creagh House estate, but also illustrating the contraction of the estate following its partial sale (1913-4) to the Congested Districts Board for Ireland (established 1891; NUIG).