Aghafin House

Detached three-bay split level gate lodge, built c.1850, having single-storey front (north) elevation and two-storey rear, and with single-storey addition to rear. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof having red brick chimneystack, clay ridge tiles, timber eaves supports, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, rubble limestone visible in places. Square-headed window openings to front, having painted masonry sills and leaded pivot awning windows. Square-headed window openings to ground floor level of east and west side elevations, with painted masonry sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings to front and to east elevation of rear addition, with timber panelled doors, carved to front elevation. Gateway to north of house comprising double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by pair of octagonal-plan, painted, tooled stone piers, having pointed capping. Single-leaf cast-iron pedestrian gates to each side, with octagonal-plan painted tooled stone piers, and matching railings on rendered plinth wall.

The simple form of this modest gate lodge is enhanced by subtle decorative detailing, such as the leaded windows and the well executed door carved timber panelled door. The gateway itself forms an entrance to Agafin House and fine quality craftsmanship is evident in the execution of the piers. Elegantly constructed with tooled stone, the gates form a focal point, with a sense of symmetry achieved by the arrangement of pedestrian gates around the main vehicular gateway.