National Botanic Gardens — Botanic Road

Pair of detached three-bay two-storey gate lodges, built c. 1890, flanking entrance gate screen to National Botanic Gardens. South lodge square in plan and north lodge having L-plan. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with slated pediment breakfronts having terracotta ridge crestings and angled hip tiles; cement-rendered plinth and cornices to chimneystacks, with clay pots; large single stack to south lodge, smaller stack to north lodge. Timber fascias with deep sheeted soffits and moulded timber brackets to eaves, having architrave mouldings to pediments and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled cement-rendered walls with plinth course and rendered granite stringcourses. Square-headed window openings with varied concrete and limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to end bays and tripartite four-over-four pane to centre bays, with timber mullions. No street-front doors; square-headed opening to north elevation of south lodge, with timber battened door having central six-pane light; and segmental-headed doorway with timber panelled door to rear side of north lodge, having brass furniture in timber case with side and transom lights. Café courtyard to west of south lodge with adjoining ticket office; pyramidal roofed timber battened gazebo in re-entrant angle of north lodge, having replacement uPVC rainwater goods and tiled floor. Lodges linked by ornamental cast-iron gate screen with central granite piers and cement-rendered ancillary piers with granite plinths and copings; gilded ornament and lettering reading 'Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus/National Botanic Gardens' above pedestrian gates with original cast-iron turnstiles. Set back from street behind angled open entrance plaza having planted margins with granite kerbs and iron rails to lodge fronts.