Rathmore

Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1880. Renovated, c.1920, with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch added to right. Now disused and derelict. Hipped roof with slate (lean-to to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Yellow brick chimney stack with red brick dressings. Timber eaves. Rainwater goods now gone. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Red brick dressings. Window fittings now gone. Timber boarded door. Set back from road in own grounds. Grounds now mostly overgrown.

This gate lodge is a small-scale building, now in poor condition, that nevertheless was designed as a somewhat ornamental feature that would convey to passers-by the grandeur of the main house to north-west (assumed to be in a similar state of repair, if not now gone) – its social importance is therefore assured. This simple decorative treatment is evident in the use of red brick for quoins to the corners of the building, together with the juxtaposition of yellow and red brick to the chimney stack. The gate lodge, despite its poor condition, retains much of its original features and materials, including a timber boarded door and a slate roof. The gate lodge is of some historic significance, representing a component of a once-prosperous middle-size estate in the locality of Rathmore.