Knock Abbey — THOMASTOWN

Detached two-bay single-storey over basement gate lodge, extant 1880, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay; single-bay (south) or two-bay (north) single-storey side elevations. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on cut-limestone chamfered cushion courses on red brick Running bond bases having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walls on cut-limestone plinth on repointed rubble stone base with margined tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick voussoirs framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Knock Abbey with tooled limestone ashlar octagonal piers to perimeter having ivy-covered capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.