University College Cork

Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey with half-dormer attic former gate lodge, built c.1860, with open timber porch to front (east) elevation and single-storey extension to south and rear (west) elevations. Now in use as office. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks, leaded coping, half-dormer window, cut limestone eaves brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared-and-snecked limestone walls with stepped plinth course. Single and tripartite Tudor-arch window opening under cut limestone label mouldings to front and north elevations with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and cut limestone sills. Bipartite square-headed opening to half dormer. Tudor-arch door opening with timber battened door set in porch having pitched slate roof supported on timber posts to cut limestone plinth wall. Set in university campus.

A picturesque former gate lodge incorporating interesting features such as the open timber porch and Tudor arch windows. The building forms part of a group of considerable architectural and artistic interest, and accompanies the Quadrangle, Windle Building and Aula Maxima in its Victorian Tudor detailing. It marks the southern entrance to the campus.