Castlemacgarrett

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 1916, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), cement rendered central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on timber boarded eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with red brick Running bond stringcourse centred on red brick flush quoins to corners (porch). Square-headed central door opening below embossed date stone ("1916") with dragged cut-limestone monolithic surround framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window opening (south) or square-headed flanking window opening in bipartite arrangement (north), dragged cut-limestone sills, and dragged cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds at entrance to Castlemacgarrett.

A gate lodge not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Castlemacgarrett estate, but also defining the extent of the estate in the early twentieth century (cf. 31310116) with the architectural value of the composition, one evoking comparisons with a nearby head gardener's house (see 31311123), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the timber work embellishing the roofline.