Gloster House, gate lodge in County Offaly (14942013)

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Detached L-plan two-bay two-storey lodge to Gloster House, built in 1869, with entrance porch to side elevation. Located to north of Gloster House. Pitched tiled roof with overhanging eaves, hoods to windows on front elevation, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and sandstone sills. Round-headed window opening to rear elevation and oculus over entrance with carved sandstone surround and hoodmoulding. Date 1869 engraved on dripstops. Round-headed door opening to porch. Front site enclosed by rendered stone wall and accessed through wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by limestone piers.

Dating to 1869, this lodge is located at the back entrance to Gloster House and provides access to the farm and outbuildings. The architectural detailing displayed on the lodge is characteristic of late nineteenth-century styling and contrasts with the emphatically eighteenth-century main house. The overhanging eaves and hoods to upper floor windows create interest and are appealing features of the lodge.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14942013

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