Lough Fea House

Detached multiple-bay single-storey gate lodge with attic storey, built c.1845, having gabled entrance porch to east elevation, canted bay window with hipped slate roof to south gable, and two-bay full-height return to rear elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs, with cut-stone chimneystacks. Snecked dressed stone walls having tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings having chamfered stone surrounds and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with chamfered stone surround having replacement timber door. Rubble stone boundary walls to roadside to west having cast-iron double-leaf gates. Set back from road on western boundary of Lough Fea estate.

Home Lodge is one of a number of gate lodges on the Lough Fea estate. It may have been designed by architect George Sudden who was employed on the estate for some time in the mid-nineteenth century. Lough Fea is the seat of the Shirley family who, by 1876, had become the biggest landlords in County Monaghan. This lodge is well constructed and displays skilled stone masonry. It retains its early form and shares a number of characteristics with other estate buildings in the vicinity. The modest size, complexity of form, and main elevations addressing the estate road rather than the main road make it typical of gate lodge architecture.