Ardkeen — Dunmore Road

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built 1864 - 1866, with prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico to front.

The saved account records: 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.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roofs on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves.

The saved account records: 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.

Ardkeen — Dunmore Road matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: 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… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.