Monasteroris

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Monasteroris, built c.1810, with modern extension to rear. Located adjacent to entrance gates to Monasteroris. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack. Random coursed limestone walls with limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick reveals, limestone sills, timber casement windows and limestone labels. Continuous limestone label to window and door openings to front elevation. Square-headed door opening to front elevation blocked-up. Entrance gates comprise wrought-iron double gates flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on a limestone plinth wall terminating in ashlar limestone piers. Gates and railings flanked by squared-limestone quadrant walls.

This gate lodge and elegant gates make a fitting entrance to Monasteroris, a fine country house dating to the early eighteenth century. Although the gate lodge has been extended and altered, it retains much of its original character and together with the entrance gates and main house form an interesting group of related structures. The gate lodge is located amongst the ruins of a once large monastery complex of which very little survives.