Survey Data
Reg No
31312003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1841 - 1894
Coordinates
115099, 259773
Date Recorded
12/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1894, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1976. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles centred on dwarf chimney stack having cut-limestone stringcourse below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on limewashed eaves. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Pointed-arch central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber fitting. Square-headed flanking window openings with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road at entrance to Loughmask House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Loughmask House estate in the later nineteenth century with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Georgian Gothic doorcase; and the high pitched roof showing a slab-like slate finish. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 31312004) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.