Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Small Lodge
Ballindrum, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 1 October 1975
- Date of construction
- 1760 - 1779
- Address
- Small Lodge, Springhill, 20 Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7NQ
- Townland
- Ballindrum
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.68582, -6.65730
- Date of survey
- 17 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB09/06/024 F
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 2 bay, single storey gate lodge, with screen wall and gates, stone built and gabled. The S elevation and entrance elevation has a centrally placed pointed and sheeted door with small vertical and shuttered opening at apex of gable. Wall roughcast rendered and painted white. Timber plain barges with overhang. The N E elevation, 2 bays, 12 pane double hung sliding sash pointed windows with upper criss cross astragals. Walls as gable, ½ round metal gutter, single downpipe, natural slated roof, gabled, central diagonally placed chimney stack on ridge, single pot. The other walls windowless and finish same.
The lodge is sited close to the gate pier and screen wall but separated from them. The piers are square, tall with curved pyramidal tops built in random rubble attached to screen rubble walls which are at right angles for a couple of metres before curving convexwise to the Springhill Road. Metal gates modern in style.
Historical information
A vacant gate lodge probably dates from the mid or later 18th cent. However the entrance gateway may be earlier and predate the other entrance and lodge (see HB09/06/024A). Dean suggests a date of c1790 and states that there were a pair of lodges gables facing other across the avenue. The estate became the property of the National Trust in 1957 (see HB09/06/024B).
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46
2. Mid Ulster Houses N.T. p. 28.
3. U.J.A. 3rd Series Vol. 1 (1938) p. 81-83.
4. Notes, 1st Survey, E.H.S. Hill Street, Belfast
5. Dean, J.A.K. The Gate Lodges of Ulster p. 120.
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
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
An 18th cent. vacant gate lodge in “Gothick” style part of a well preserved and carefully laid out group of estate buildings.
General comments
This building was recorded under HB09/06/029 in the first survey.
Nearby in the register
- Cart Shed and Dovecote at SpringhillDove/ Pigeon Houseunder 1 mi
- Tractor shedOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Coachhouse, SpringhillEstate Related Structuresunder 1 mi
- Springhill HouseCountry Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.