Ross House, gate lodge in County Meath

What is recorded here

Ross House in Ross has a little gate lodge wearing the main house's fancy window decorations. It's the younger brother arriving at a wedding in the same suit as the groom, delighted with himself and already in the photographs.

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1880, now in use as private dwelling. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Carved stone surrounds to window openings with curved pediments above. Stone doorcase comprising of pilaster flanking the door opening with entablature and pediment above. Rubble stone walls.

This former gates lodge forms part of a demesne group with the house, stables and boat house. The modest structure is of apparent and architectural design. The gate lodge repeats the pedimented windows of the main house. The building is enhanced by the retention of many original features and materials, such as the slate roof and the dressings to the openings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14400804

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