Loughbawn House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Entrance gateway to country house, comprising octagonal-plan carved timber gate piers, with pointed dome caps, erected c.1880. Octagonal-plan cut-stone wheel-guards, one to avenue (west) side of piers, one loose to road side of entrance. Gate now missing.

While carefully designed and executed gate piers are a feature of country houses, these examples are unusual due to the use of timber rather than stone as a material. Their continued survival indicates the quality of the original timber used. The caps may have been modelled on pineapples, which were a symbol of welcome in Georgian times, or more likely modelled on an existing gateway. They combine with the gate lodge across the road to make an interesting visual contribution to the public road.

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.