Gatelodge at Dullerton Manor House,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay two-storey Arts and Crafts gatelodge to Dullerton Manor, dated 1898, located to the south side of Dullerton Road. Rectangular-on-plan with projecting gabled bay to east.

Roof is pitched rosemary clay tiled with crested terracotta ridge tiles; deep overhanging eaves over exposed rafter-ends supported by timber brackets on kneelers; timber bargeboards; single brick corbelled chimney. Walls are English garden wall bonded over stepped plinth; roughcast with decorative half-timbering. Windows are square-headed timber framed casements with brick voussoirs (ground floor).

Principal elevation faces east; at left, projecting gabled bay contains central window flanked by sidelights with shared bracketed sill at ground floor; jettied first floor supported on corbelled brackets contains canted oriel window on timber brackets surmounted by projecting apex; segmental-headed vertically sheeted timber door in bead moulded surround with moulded keyblock to north elevation. Right bay is abutted to re-entrant angle by lean-to porch canopy supported on turned posts over brick plinth surmounted by balustrade.

South elevation consists of gable at left containing window at first floor; segmental-headed entrance door at ground floor right to enclosed yard; at right, projecting bay is blank.

West elevation consists of central stepped projecting chimney-breast surmounted by tall corbelled chimney flanked by console brackets; at right, gabled dormer at first floor contains single window.

Set to south of entrance drive to Dullerton Manor with enclosed yard to south containing lean-to extension; brick walling surmounted by terracotta coping; segmental-headed vertically sheeted timber entrance door in bead moulded surround to east; stepped coping. Lodge bounded to east by brick walling (originally surmounted by railings, now removed); hedging to south and west.

Roof Rosemary clay tiles
Walling English garden wall bonded red brick at ground floor; roughcast with decorative half timbering at first floor
Windows Square-headed timber framed casements
RWG Cast-iron cavetto profiled gutters and square downpipes

Historical information

The “Lodge” is recorded in the Annual Revisions in 1903 and drawn onto the Valuation Map for this period. It appears on the third edition of the OS Map in 1905, northeast of an older gate lodge, belonging to the previous house on the site. It is valued at £7 and the leaseholder is General William D. Bond.

Dean writes: “North Lodge, 1898; architect not known. A striking sight with the backdrop of Gortmonly Hill is this ‘Stockbroker Tudor’ escapee from the suburbs. A two storey gatehouse on an L plan with a generous propositions. Its ground floor built in orange brick with, to the avenue, a canted bay over which projects a half timbered gable on big brackets. The road elevation has a triple window below a jettied first floor also in ‘black-and-white’ work which contains a canted oriel window under which is the datestone. The Rosemary-tiled crested roof plunges down in a catslide to form a porch to the front door. This is rich in excellent joinery work, supported by turned posts with a balustrade where you would expect but also one forming a frieze over. There is a tall brick corbelled chimney stack. The lodge nicely set off by a terrace with an ornamental fretwork railing. A lodge very much akin to that at Conway Co. Antrim” (Dean, p.142).

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/2/1– First Edition OS Map (1832-3)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/2/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/2/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/2 – Townland Valuation Map(1828-40)
5. PRONI VAL/1/B/639A&B – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40)
6. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/2A-B – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64)
7. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/42C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
8. PRONI VAL/12/B/42/18A-G – Annual Revision Records (1860-1925)

Secondary Sources

1. Dean, J. A. K. “The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer.” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached two-bay two-storey Arts and Crafts gatelodge to Dullerton Manor, dated 1898, located to the north side of Dullerton Road. The lodge is well maintained and retains all original features to the façade. The mock Tudor styling is depicted by overhanging first floor supported by corbelled brackets and half-timbering and further interest is added by the canted oriel window on the east elevation and the decorative porch canopy. The picturesque design of the lodge forms a fitting entrance to the large estate and it makes a positive contribution to the formal setting of the original house (now demolished). The gate lodge has group value with the listed Dullerton House (HB10.10.002A) and outbuildings (HB10.10.002C).