Dunbrody House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1902, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched slate roof centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gables with timber finials to apexes, paired "wallhead" central chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation having lichen-covered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" walls with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three steps with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" voussoirs framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-"Old Red Sandstone" voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road at entrance to grounds of Dunbrody House with rear (north) elevation fronting onto road.

A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Dunbrody House estate by Henry "Harry" Spencer Chichester (1821-1906), second Baron Templemore, with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a canopied doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect; and the miniature gablet embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15616011) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.