Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gate Lodge to Forkhill House
Tievecrom, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Gate Lodge to Forkhill House, 22 Captains Road, Forkhill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 9RS
- Townland
- Tievecrom
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.06748, -6.43085
- Date of survey
- 31 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/15/031 D
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single-storey/ three-bay gate lodge aligned SW-NE on the E side of Captains Road.
Pitched natural slate roof with decorative bargeboards with perforated cross detail. Exposed rafter tails. Two cement rendered chimneys - one to left gable and the other on party wall between the bays. Walls are lined cement rendered (unless otherwise stated). Windows are top-hung timber casements with granite cills.
Principal elevation faces SE. The left bay has a similarly detailed projecting porch to right and a window to left. Porch has a 2x4 panelled timber door to front face; right and left cheeks each have a narrow cast-iron Gothic lattice window. Middle and right bays each have a window to centre.
Right and left gables are blank.
Rear elevation is wet-dashed and has a 2/2 sliding sash to left bay with machined brick jambs and head. Middle bay and left half of right bay are abutted by a lean-to return with monopitched natural slate roof and timber door to front face. Right and left cheeks are blank. The remainder of right bay is blank.
Historical information
A building, probably a gate lodge to Forkhill House (HB16/15/031A), is shown here on the 1835 OS map. Around 1840 the estate was sold to Henry Alexander, and the lodge was extended by a bay to its present form; he also added the ornate cast-iron lattice windows. Alexander’s son Captain Granville Henry Jackson Alexander added the decorative bargeboards in 1880.
Primary sources:
1. OS 6” map, 1st edition 1835, Co Armagh sheet 31 (PRONI OS 6/2/31/1).
Secondary sources
1. J A K Dean ‘Gate Lodges of Ulster’, p.37 (Belfast, 1994).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A single-storey/ three-bay gate lodge of rectangular plan form at the entrance to Forkhill House. Its internal features are gone and, although it forms a coherent group with the gate screen (HB16/15/031C) and house (HB16/15/031A), it is not of special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Gate Screen to Forkhill HouseGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Forkhill HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- FarmyardFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- Water pumpPumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.