Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gate Lodge
Ballyguddin, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of construction
- 1780 - 1799
- Address
- Gate Lodge, 440 Drumrane Road, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4PH
- Townland
- Ballyguddin
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.93308, -6.93369
- Date of survey
- 24 April 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/06/007 D
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Former gate house perpendicular to Drumrane Road set approximately ten metres behind boundary fence. Cast iron entrance gates at road with curving flanking baluster set on low rendered wall. Cast iron gate posts topped by finial, no manufacturer’s name, sweeping top rail of gate. Fleur de lis decoration to top of verticals. Lower section of arrowheads with cross scrap behind.
Gate house roofless and derelict. Shell of building lime washed covering ashlar stonework on the east, road facing façade. Brickwork on the north (entrance drive) façade. Entrance in the north east corner. Two windows facing drive with one smaller window facing road. Window frames mostly gone. Stone cills. No external decoration to door and windows. Brickwork facades to other two elevations. No windows to rear. Single small window to south elevation.
Historical information
The lodge is shown on the O.S. map Londonderry 24
References
Primary Sources
O.S. map 1832 Londonderry 24
O.S. map 1832 Rev. 1856 Londonderry 24
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 little architectural detail of consequence apart from some stonework. The iron gates are probably of a later 19th cent. Date. Maybe of local historical interest.
Nearby in the register
- Buttermilk BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Outbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Strangemore HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- 7 Lower Main StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.