Muckross House, gate lodge in County Kerry

What is recorded here

Muckross House's gate lodge in Carrigafreaghane acquired a glass passage to an outbuilding that used to stand separately. A lovely domestic compromise: you're no longer going outside in your slippers, but the neighbours can still confirm you're wearing them.

Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1870, with single-bay single-storey gabled entrance bay to left, single-storey limestone ashlar canted bay window to right and single-bay single-storey projecting bay to east elevation. Now in use as private house. Pyramidal slate roof with lead ridge rolls, rendered chimneystack and having timber bargeboard to porch. Painted rendered walls. Timber one-over-one pane windows. Timber boarded door approached by flight of limestone steps. Attached two-bay single-storey flat-roofed outbuilding, built c. 1870, to south originally detached, renovated in late twentieth century with single-bay single-storey glazed linking bay added to accommodate residential use. Wrought-iron gate to site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21306602

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