Castle Lodge

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (west). Renovated. Replacement hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge having shallow capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting lead-covered "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on "Acanthus"-detailed consoles, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary late Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase not only demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also showing a simple radial fanlight; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained group alongside the adjacent Thornberry (see 60260002) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.