61 Loughbrickland Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single storey/ two bay picturesque gate lodge opposite gates to “Streamville” 66 Loughbrickland Road (HB16/09/011).

Half hipped natural slate roof (partially collapsed) with chimney stack to centre obscured by ivy growth. Deep overhanging gables with decorative bargeboards to left end and plain ones to right; projecting eaves to front and rear. No rainwater goods. Walls are painted lime render over rubble stone.

Main elevation faces S to road. Each bay on this elevation has a pair of small 1/1 sash window (with horns) set within a single opening with labelled granite drip mould and granite cill.

Entrance is to centre of left gable and comprises a wide sheeted timber door with labelled drip mould over.

Rear elevation has single 1/1 sash window to left bay and a pair of steel casements to right bay. Ground level is almost to cill height at rear.

Right gable is blank.

Historical information

Appears on the 1833 OS 6” map. Explicitly captioned as a gate lodge 1860 edition. Served Streamville House. Dean states that it is “Tudor Picturesque” in style and that the front windows were lattice paned and the chimney stacks of diagonally set brickwork.

Primary Sources:

1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1833) Co Down sheet 41 (PRONI OS 6/3/41/1)
2. OS 6" map, 2nd edition (1860) Co Down sheet 41 (PRONI OS 6/3/41/2)

Secondary Source:
1. J. A. K. Dean “The Gate lodges of Ulster” (Belfast: UAHS, 1994), p.97.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This small picturesque style gate lodge, is attractively located on the roadside opposite the gates to Streamville House (HB16/09/011). It retains its plan form and much of its original fabric but is very derelict.