Mons

Detached three-bay single-storey former officer's house with half-dormer attic, c.1830, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey lean-to open porch to centre. Reroofed, c.1950. Now in private residential use. Gable-ended roof (lean-to to porch). Replacement artificial slate, c.1950, in diamond-pattern courses. Red clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to half-dormer attic windows. Materials not discerned. Rendered walls over timber frame. Painted. Tudor-style timber frame detailing to gables to north-north-west and to south-east. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 2/2 timer sash windows. Timber casement window (five-light) to half-dormer attic. Square-headed door opening behind lean-to open porch having lattice work timber panels. Timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to front.

Mons Lodge, probably originally built as an officer’s house, is an attractive small-scale range of much character, distinguished by the steeply-pitched roof. The house is of social and historical significance, having been built as part of the barracks complex on the outskirts of Kildare town, attesting to the military presence in the locality in the nineteenth century. Now in private residential use, the house remains in very good condition and retains most of its original form and character. The construction of the house using a timber frame is of some technical merit, and is a rare survival in the region. The house retains many important early or original salient features and materials, including timber sash and casement fenestration, a timber door sheltered by an attractive timber porch, and cast-iron rainwater goods to the roof. Mons Lodge, set in its own mature grounds, is a picturesque feature on Leinster Walk and forms a neat group with further related houses built in an English suburban style.