What is recorded here
Reen Cottage in Reen has eight sides on each of its paired chimneys, which is fierce dressing up for a gate lodge. You arrive to ask whether the owner's home and discover even the chimney pots have better qualifications than you.
Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey Tudor Revival style gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 1839, possibly originally thatched and incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1814. Comprising single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to centre having ogee-headed opening, single-storey canted bay window to right, single-storey box bay window to west elevation and single-bay single-storey return to rear to south. Pitched slate roof with gable copings having corbelled springers, paired octagonal rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron hopper and downpipe and gabled half-dormer. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth, and render date plaque to porch. Timber mullion-and-transom frames with iron framed lattice glazing, limestone sills and render hood mouldings. Bay windows with pitched roofs, lead ridge rolls and timber cornice. Porch has diagonally-laid quarry tiles and ribbed vaulting with plaster ribs. Four-centred arched entrance door with timber panelled double-leaf door and bell-pull to architrave. Gateway adjacent to lodge has two-limestone ashlar piers which are widely spaced and probably originally part of a more elaborate gateway.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21306609
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