Knocklinn

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch. Renovated. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof on chamfered timber posts, perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having rounded capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, chevron- or saw tooth-detailed timber bargeboards to gable, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with tessellated terracotta tiled threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Knocklinn

A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Knocklinn House estate with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely erected in tandem with the restructuring of the eponymous country house (see 60260088), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.