Enniscoe House

Detached single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted gate lodge with dormer attic, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof, clay or terracotta ridge tiles centred on drag edged vermiculated cut-limestone chimney stack having cut-limestone corbelled stepped capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber rafters. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Lancet window opening in bipartite arrangement (gable) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing four-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Pointed-arch window openings (side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings having casement overlights with cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Enniscoe House.

A gate lodge erected by Mervyn Pratt JP DL (1807-90) contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Enniscoe House estate with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling a contemporary gate lodge erected by Pratt at Cabra Castle in County Cavan (Dean 1994, 46; Dean 2019, 62), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on the outline of 'a lattice-work porch' (Craig and Garner 1976, 40); the "pointed" profile of the openings underpinning a contemporary Georgian Gothic theme in contrast to the restrained Classicism of the nearby country house (see 31303803); and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched roof.