Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gates & Pillars at Ivybrook Lodge, 20 Drumalane Road, Newry, Co Down BT35 8AP
Drumalane, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of listing
- 26 March 2004
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Gates & Pillars at Ivybrook Lodge, 20 Drumalane Road, Newry, Co Down BT35 8AP
- Townland
- Drumalane
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.16709, -6.34192
- Date of survey
- 18 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/29/007 C
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Pair of carriage gates at main entrance to Ivybrook Lodge (HB16/29/007A).
Of wrought iron with vertical barb, divided into upper and lower sections, with cast details and spearhead finials to each bar. Solid granite piers rest on projecting plinth. Moulded panels to street and overhanging moulded copings. Flanking the piers is a screen of random rubble granite faced with squared granite blocks set in irregular courses, and with overhanging chamfered copings. The screen terminates in small square granite block piers with pyramidal caps.
Historical information
Probably erected when the house was extended and the grounds landscaped in the mid 19th century.
Primary Sources:
1. PRONI – OS8/20/1/24 (1:500 map of 1861).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
The gates, piers and screen provide an attractive entrance to the grounds of Ivybrook Lodge and contribute to its setting.
Nearby in the register
- Gate LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Laurel HillHouseunder 1 mi
- Ivybrook LodgeOfficeunder 1 mi
- St Mary of the Assumption (RC) ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.