Dunbrody House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1902, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), lichen-covered terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners centred on red brick English Garden Wall bond surface finish (porch). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows retaining some six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set at entrance to grounds of Dunbrody House.

A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Dunbrody House estate by Henry "Harry" Spencer Chichester (1821-1906), second Baron Templemore, with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: however, the piecemeal introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15616013) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a bayside village street scene.