Survey Data
Reg No
60260025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Kiltiernan Lodge
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1911 - 1937
Coordinates
320418, 221976
Date Recorded
22/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1937, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey pedimented advanced porch; single-bay single-storey side elevations. Now disused. Hipped "fish scale" slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) "fish scale" slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Flemish bond chimney stack having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable forming open bed pediment with finial to apex, and no rainwater goods surviving on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick header bond cornice. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and red brick block-and-start surround framing timber door having overlight. Camber-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Kilternan Lodge.
Appraisal
A gate lodge not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Kilternan Lodge estate, but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the early twentieth century with the architectural value of the composition, one showing 'much of the appearance of a labourer's council cottage but more elaborate' (Dean 2016, 122), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a pedimented porch; the silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the high pitched roof showing a polygonal "fish scale" 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 making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.