Fota House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820, with lean-to extension to rear (west). Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves with timber battens, red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with quarry glazed timber casement windows. Recessed square-headed door opening to west elevation with timber battened door. Set to north-west of entrance gates comprising ashlar and carved limestone square-profile piers surmounted by replacement cast-iron lanterns and having replacement double-leaf cast-iron gates.

Skilfully executed and largely intact gate lodge to the historically important Fota House demesne, once seat of the Barry-Smith family and altered and enlarged to the design of some of the most influential architects in Ireland during the nineteenth century, Sir Richard Morrison and his son William Vitruvius Morrison. The Fota House demesne once comprised all of Foaty Island, the survival of its notable demesne structures, distinguished gardens and formal layout adds significantly to Ireland's national heritage.