Beauchamp

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on (single-storey) prostyle distyle pedimented portico. Now disused. Hipped slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with moss-covered ridge tiles centred on cement rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening behind (single-storey) prostyle distyle portico approached by flight of two cut-granite steps with paired columns on panelled pedestals having paired responsive pilasters supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed open bed pediment, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Square-headed flanking window openings with sill courses, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Beauchamp.

A gate lodge not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Beauchamp estate, but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the later nineteenth century with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling a contemporary gate lodge at Mountanville House (see 6022----) and thereby attributed to John Skipton Mulvany (1813-70) of Great Brunswick Street [Pearse Street] (Dean 2016, 89), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a pillared portico; and the definition of the principal "apartments" by Classically-detailed polygonal bay windows. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.