Ardkeen, gate lodge in County Waterford

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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built 1864 - 1866, with prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico to front. Extended, c.1940, comprising two-bay single-storey recessed wing to north accommodating entrance bay, single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to south, and two-bay single-storey return to east completing cruciform plan. Now in use as offices. Hipped slate roofs on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with round-headed recessed niches to original block, moulded stringcourses, triglyph detailing to frieze to original block (plain frieze to remainder), and rendered course to eaves. Square-headed window openings (under prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico to original block) with rendered sills on consoles, and moulded rendered surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, replacement glazed timber door, c.1990, and sidelights. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Ardkeen (House) and now shared with Ardkeen Hospital.

An attractive, well-proportioned gate lodge in the Classical style, built to designs prepared by John Skipton Mulvany (1813 - 1871) for John Malcomson (n. d.), which has been sympathetically extended with additional ranges integrating well with the original block. Subsequently well maintained, the lodge retains most of its original fabric, while fine rendered detailing enhances the artistic desing quality of the composition. The gate lodge is of particular significance as a reminder of the surrounding grounds having originally been developed as a gentleman’s estate (originally known as Elva Lodge, and latterly known as Ardkeen (House)), and forms an elegant feature in the streetscape of Dunmore Road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22831007

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