East Lodge

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two bay gate lodge with cross-gabled two storey right bay (aligned N-S) and single storey left bay (aligned W-E) situated at the E entrance to Crom Estate.

Pitched natural slate roof with fretted bargeboards and pointed finials to gables. There is an ashlar sandstone chimney with advanced stepped chimney breast to centre of E elevation. Overhanging boxed eaves support half-round metal rainwater goods. Walls are painted lime-rendered over a slightly advanced base course. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding sashes with painted stone cills (unless otherwise stated).

Principal elevation faces S. The cross gable has a canted bay with hipped natural slate roof to ground floor. Each face contains a window (that to S face is wider). Above is a window to apex. The left bay is blank. Abutting in the angle of the two bays, and advancing slightly, is a projecting gabled entrance porch (detailed as house), which rises to eaves level of cross-gable. S face has a t+g sheeted door. E face abuts cross-gable. W face has a 4x1 fixed lattice paned window with concrete cill. Behind porch, set in the angle of the two roofs, is a raised skylight with hipped natural slate roof. It is glazed to W and blank to S.

W gable has a canted bay detailed as that to façade.

N elevation is completely abutted to ground floor by an extension. The exposed first floor of the cross gable has a top-hung timber casement window. Extension roof is flat and felted and walls are as house. N face has a t+g sheeted door to left. To centre and to right is a timber casement window. W cheek is blank. E face has a long narrow landscape window below eaves.

E elevation is blank (but has central sandstone chimney breast (see above).

Setting:
The lodge is set within a small garden at the E entrance to Crom Castle Estate.

Historical information

Thought to have been erected c.1840, but not to a design by Edward Blore. This building is first shown on the 1857 OS 6" map, and is explicitly captioned "Gate Ho".

Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 2nd edition, 1857, Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/2).

Secondary sources:
1. Terence Reeves-Smyth, Crom Castle Demesne (National Trust, 1990).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A picturesque little 19thC gate lodge situated at the E entrance of Crom Castle Estate. Although it has been refurbished it retains many original features of interest and is of importance within the Crom Estate group.

General comments

This record was previously numbered HB12/02/016.