Killineer House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built 1836. Engaged Doric portico to south, fully-engaged extension c. 1870 and lean-to extension to north. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth rendered shouldered corbelled chimneystacks, painted smooth rendered projecting eaves, corbelled eaves course, cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, rendered plinth and channelled straight quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows with margin lights. Square-headed door opening, painted timber double doors each with moulded bottom panel and glazed upper panels c. 1830, mullioned overlight, tooled limestone step and paving. House set at entrance to Killineer House estate with monumental gate screen to south-west having rusticated limestone gate piers, quadrant railings and wrought and cast-iron gates; west elevation faces onto busy road with rubble stone masonry boundary wall to perimeter.

This finely designed and proportioned gate lodge has a simple balanced design typical of demesne architectural development in the nineteenth century. The building maintains its original site context at the entrance to Killineer House estate and the handsome gate screen is therefore a particularly important survival. Restrained and effective use of classical styling in the Doric porch gives a clear central focus to the façade.