Laurence Lodge

Worker's house

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Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level former estate worker's house, built c.1880, having a gable-fronted single-bay enclosed entrance porch with decorative bargeboards over to the front elevation (west). Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber brackets and a single rendered chimneystack (offset) to the centre. Constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, dressed stone lintels and replacement windows. Square-headed doorcase to projecting porch having timber door with overlight and dressed stone lintel over. Set back from road in own grounds with rendered wall to road frontage. Located to the east of Clonmellon and to the northeast of Killua Castle (15306023).

An appealing house, of late nineteenth-century appearance, which retains much of its early character and form. This modest building is well constructed using good quality local limestone, helping it to blend into the rural landscape. This building retains much of its early fabric, however, the replacement windows detract somewhat from its integrity. The form and location of this structure suggest that it was originally built as an estate workers house serving the nearby Killua Castle (15306023) estate.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15400923

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Recorded change of use: Originally worker's house; recorded by the architectural inventory as house

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