Former gate lodge

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey L-shaped house. Main entrance faces north-east.

Roofs slated, with plain timber bargeboards to gables replacing original decorative barges. Walls rendered wet dash on a smooth rendered plinth. Windows are modern rectangular fixed lights with side-hung casements and with top-hung vents. Canted bay to north-east entrance front. One chimney, on rear wall of rear return, replacing original brick chimneys on main block.

SETTING: The building stands in a rural area with its side elevation, originally its front elevation, facing the main road, set back slightly behind a flower bed strip. Lawn to entrance front. Tarmac yard to rear.

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but a building is shown in this position on the OS maps of 1834 and 1860, although not marked as a lodge; by the OS map of 1908 the building was marked 'Lodge'. Stylistically, judging by the previous decorative bargeboards, it may be taken to have dated from the mid-19th century.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1860, Co Armagh 8.
2. OS Map 1908, Co Armagh 8.

Secondary Sources
1. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer (Belfast, 1994), p 40 (but Dean here interprets the present building as a replacement rather than remodelling).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a rebuilding and enlargement of a 19th century building which has resulted in the loss of its original features.