Gate lodge in Ballyellane, County Cork

What is recorded here

Detached four-bay single-storey with attic accommodation former gate lodge, built c. 1790, having two-bay full-height gabled breakfront to front (north) elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack and rooflights. Rubble stone walls with brick eaves course. Square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs having replacement windows and timber battened door with single sidelight. Recent square-headed opening with replacement window to breakfront gable. Rubble stone boundary walls to rear boundary with square-profile piers.

Modest size and carefully designed and executed symmetry typical of gate lodge typology. Pedimented breakfront showing classical influence. Repository of memories of Ashgrove House. Architectural contribution to roadscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20907643

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
AfroBrazilian, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ian S, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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