Ballinapark House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Hipped slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, replacement yellow brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls originally rendered with hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed central door opening with red brick header bond voussoirs framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Camber- or segmental-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick header bond voussoirs framing timber casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Ballinapark House.

A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Ballinapark House estate in a later nineteenth century with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a windbreak-like porch; and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15602025) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.