gate lodge

Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820, no longer in use. Rectangular-plan. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted repointed red brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron gutters fixed below eaves, circular cast-iron downpipe. Painted roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth, smooth rendered batter to south. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two to north elevation, one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to south elevation. Square-headed door opening to north, painted timber door frame, painted timber vertically-sheeted door with wrought-iron latch handle and bolt. Lodge set by road to entrance gates to Clonmore Glebe; tooled ashlar limestone square-profile piers, pointed arch arcaded motif to cornice, shallow pyramidal caps, wrought-iron double gates, limestone carriage stops, flanked by painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined boundary wall, tooled stone carriage stops to roadway.

This attractive, small, simple gate lodge with interesting hipped roof, stands at the entrance to Clonmore Glebe. The retention of original features such as the timber sliding sash windows to rear and doorway of main elevation, heighten the architectural interest of the structure. The simplicity of the lodge contrasts with the elaborate and stately entrance gate with beautiful carving and tooling to the stone piers' decoration being of particular significance. As this group of structures formed the entrance way to a glebe house they also are of some social interest, as the glebe was an important structure within the locality.