Gate Lodge

Lackagh, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Farm Buildings
Date of construction: 1780 - 1799
Address: Gate Lodge, 415 Ballyquin Road, Dungiven, Co Derry, BT47 4NQ
Townland: Lackagh
Council: Causeway Coast and Glens
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.93329, -6.92257
Date of survey: 20 April 2000
HB reference: HB02/06/007 C

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey derelict gate lodge perpendicular to Ballyquinn road. Building located behind hedge approximately 5m from road. Harled rectangular entrance pillars with stone cap at road. Modern agricultural gate. Low slate hipped roof partly overgrown by vegetation. Building constructed of rubble stone with decaying harling over. Projecting brick course at head. No gutter.

Entrance door and two window openings to south facing façade beside former entrance path. Door opening at south west corner nearest road. Concrete cills to windows which do not project. Remains of a fixed casement window with high level opening light to easternmost window. Small window to western (road facing) elevation. Other elevations blank.

Building situated in one corner of an agricultural field, no trace of boundary fences or outbuildings survive. Former entrance road little more than a track.

Historical information

The building is shown on O.S. map 1832 Londonderry 24

References

Primary Sources
O.S. map 1832 Londonderry 25
O.S. map 1832 Rev. 1856 Londonderry 25
Griffiths V.B. 1858

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

The gate lodge is ruinous retaining no architectural character. May be of local historical interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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