Markree Castle, gate lodge in County Sligo (32402630)

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Detached two-bay single-storey rendered gate lodge with gable-fronted attics, built c. 1880. L-plan, dormer bays projecting slightly supported on painted stone corbels, gable-fronted entrance porch set diagonally in angle of L, single-storey flat-roofed extension, c. 1980, to rear (north). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered recessed plinth. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber coupled sash windows. Shallow pointed-arched entrance doorway, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Estate entrance gateway to south-east, ashlar limestone gate piers, pyramidal caps, rubble stone quadrant walls, ashlar limestone bull-nosed copings, wrought-iron gates and railings. Similar gateway directly opposite on other side of road. House set back from road with garden to west, south and east, driveway to Markree Castle passes to east.

This particularly attractive gate lodge is a fine example of estate architecture in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It retains a considerable amount of original or early fabric. The, slightly projecting, dormers and diagonally set porch give the building its characteristic appearance. Two well-conceived gateways, with stone piers and wrought-iron gates and railings, announce the north entrance to Markree Demesne.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32402630

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