Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Movilla Cemetery Lodge
Movilla, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Gates/ Screens/ Lodges
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Movilla Cemetery Lodge, 39 Old Movilla Road, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 2HH
- Townland
- Movilla
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.59468, -5.67566
- Date of survey
- 03 February 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/08/006
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Small single storey (with attic), picturesque looking house lodge/house at the eastern entrance to Movilla Cemetery, on the eastern edge of Newtownards.
Front (N) elevation has central plain sheeted timber door with large plain fanlight. Plain shallow surround to doorway with moulded keystone with decorative shield with anchor. Narrow window opening to left of doorway with segmental arch head and sash frame with vertical astragals. Similar window to right of doorway.
W gable has small upper level sash window, with modern flat roofed garage attached at ground floor.
E gable has window opening, as front, at centre of upper level (but without astragals to frame). To the left on the ground floor is a modern two pane window. This gable merges with a full height gabled return at the rear, which has a large modern kitchen window to ground floor of its E facade.
To the right on the rear is the full height gabled return, which has a small upper level sash window. Attached to the rear of the main house and the W face of the return is a single storey flat roofed bathroom extension, which has a modern door and window to its S facade. There is a small sash window on the exposed section of the ground floor of the W elevation of the return and another small upper level window on the rear of the main house.
The entire facade is finished in lined render.
The roof of the main house is pitched with Bangor blue slates and an over hang to the front and gables with exposed rafter ends to front and decorative tied barges to main gables. The roof extends slightly above the front doorway and is supported on timber brackets. Two rendered and corbelled chimney stacks to main roof, with one to gable of return.
Historical information
This lodge probably dates from c.1876, the year in which Movilla Cemetery was taken over by the Newtownards Burial Board. The gabled return appears to be early twentieth century and the flat roofed extension and the garage are possibly c.1960s.
References- Secondary sources
1 R.S.J. Clarke (compiler) 'Gravestone Inscriptions Vol.13, County Down, Barony of Ards' (U.H.F. Belfast 1975).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Small picturesque two storey cemetery gate lodge of c.1876, now greatly extended at the rear and with a modernised interior.
Nearby in the register
- Corry burial vaultMausoleumunder 1 mi
- Movilla HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Movilla AbbeyReligious Houseunder 1 mi
- Movilla CemeteryGraveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.