Phoenix Park

Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey former Time Keeper's lodge with dormer attic, built c.1895, single-storey addition to west, and porch to re-entrant angle. Now in use as house. Pitched Rosemary tiled roof, with terracotta ridge tiles, timber bargeboards with trefoil piercings, and profile cast-iron rainwater goods over exposed rafter tails. Hipped roof to porch with leaded hips. Flat roof behind parapet to addition. Decorative red brick chimneystack to main block, with vitrified brick banding and five pots. Tall brick feature chimneystack to addition. Roughcast rendered walling over cement rendered plinth, and ashlar sandstone quoins. Square-headed window openings, with ashlar sandstone long-and-short surrounds, chamfered sandstone sills, original one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, paired to south and addition. Porch glazed over roughcast rendered plinth, with timber mullions and replacement timber glazed door. Set in mature garden at south side of Phoenix Park, surrounded by hedge and tree boundary, accessed by original double-leaf wrought-iron gate. To west is Deer Keeper’s Lodge.

An attractive late nineteenth-century lodge, displaying style, proportions and materials typical of the period, and retaining original fabric throughout. It is one of the latest of the lodge buildings to have been built within Phoenix Park, and is known as the Time Keeper’s Lodge. It contributes to the quality and variety of the architectural heritage of the park, as well as providing context with regard to its management.