Phoenix Park — Park Gate Street

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, dated 1811, with central pedimented entrance porch. Now in use as house. Hipped natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, replacement steel rainwater goods on iron drive-through brackets to rendered eaves course. Central shouldered rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots and iron birdcages. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows having ogee horns, eight-over-eight pane to front elevation and six-over-six to rear. Central pedimented entrance breakfront with square-headed door opening having replacement four-panelled timber door and original four-pane over-light. Pediment framed in granite ashlar housing granite date stone inscribed ‘MDCCCXI’. Door opens onto granite threshold stone with cast-iron bootscraper. To east end of front elevation, abutting principal entrance screen, diminutive flat-roofed square-plan projection having moulded eaves cornice, square-headed door opening with timber sheeted door to west cheek and diminutive round-headed window opening to south (boarded up). Gravel site enclosed to Chesterfield Avenue by wrought-iron railings with matching pedestrian gate hung on cast-iron posts with ball-finials. Replacement steel gates provide vehicular access to side area. Set directly north of principal entrance to Phoenix Park.