Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
South Gate Lodge
Ballynagard, Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 26 February 1979
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- South Gate Lodge, Ballynagard House, Culmore Road, Londonderry, BT48 8JH
- Townland
- Ballynagard
- Council
- Derry City and Strabane
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.04065, -7.27661
- Date of survey
- 05 March 1999
- HB reference
- HB01/27/016
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A three bay wide single storey stone built lodge with brick trim, hipped slated roofs and central chimney with segmental stone porch. The principal elevation faces south. The stone porch has brick trim now painted black and cream and on either side there is a boarded-up window also with brick trim. In each gable there is a centrally placed window. There is no window to the rear. A half round PVC gutter forms the eaves on natural slated roof with blue/black ridge and hip tiles.
The stonework of the lodge is random rubble schist, much of it built in the same manner as part of one of the back returns of the main house. This refers to the large binder stones used at the corners.
The entrance gates consist of main wrought iron decorative double gates hung from square sandstone ashlar piers with pyramidal copings. Straight wing walls are built of rubble schist stonework with band stone coping and pierced with square headed lateral pedestrian openings each hung with single wrought iron decorative gates. These openings are brick trimmed. Curved random rubble schist walls swing out from the straight walls to the back of the footwalk to Culmore Road.
Historical information
As both gate lodges are referred to in Griffiths Valuation 1858 they are pre mid-century. Dean suggests this lodge is 20 years later than the north lodge and circa 1850. The architect, Fitzgibbon Louch, worked on the main house (HB01/27/015) and may have had an influence on this building.
References:
Primary Sources:
OS Map 1st Edition 1830 Co Londonderry 14
OS Map 2nd Edition 1853 Co Londonderry 14
OS Map 1904-5 Revision Co Londonderry 14A
Ornance Survey Memoirs Parish of Templemore ( OS 1837)
Griffiths Valuation 1858
Secondary Sources:
JAK Dean ' The Gate Lodges of Ulster- a gazetteer' p111
HT Heart ' The family history of Heart of Donegal.' London: Mitchell Huges & Clarke, 1907
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A late Georgian simple gate lodge with Georgian style gates, piers and wall. The composition of lodge and gates and walling deserves to be listed.
Nearby in the register
- Ballynagard LighthouseLight House/ Navigation Markunder 1 mi
- 154 Culmore RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 156 Culmore RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Former StablesSchoolunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.