
What is recorded here
Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1780, with entrance gates flanked by quadrant walls adjacent. Gate lodge no longer in use. Hipped tiled roof with ruled and lined rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins and blind round-headed arches to front elevation with tooled limestone surrounds. Square-headed window opening to south-west facing side elevation with tooled limestone chamfered surround and mullion, sill and decoratively carved lintel with cast-iron pivot windows. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with tooled limestone surround and timber battened window. Wrought-iron double gates with spear head finials supported by channelled limestone ashlar gates piers flanked by pedestrian gates and random coursed quadrant walls with limestone coping terminating in limestone piers gives access to main house. Roughcast rendered demesne walls with limestone coping.
Located adjacent to the entrance gates to Monasteroris House, this gate lodge is notable for its fine limestone dressing. The carved window lintel visible from the avenue leading to the house is an unusual detail. The gate lodge and entrance gates form an elegant approach to the main house.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14911005
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