worker's house

Detached T-plan three-bay single-storey with dormer attic former gardener’s lodge, built 1867. Later single-storey addition to north. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge and hip tiles, original profile cast-iron gutters. Central brick chimneystack comprising four chamfered stalks with vitrified brick banding, and shared gauged brick cap, flanked by raised saddle-back ridges to roof slopes to either side, having trefoil enrichment to ends. Gabled dormers with decorative bargeboards. Walling is pebble-dashed with cavetto-moulded painted stucco cornice. Generally triangular-headed timber side-hung casement windows with diamond leaded lattice cames, in square-headed openings. Some replacement top-hung casements. Triangular-headed pivoting windows with diamond lattice lead cames to dormers. Square-headed door opening contained in projecting porch with mono-pitched roof, with plain reveals and timber sheeted replacement door. Located within private enclosed garden plot bounded by high hedges, set within Peoples' Garden, Phoenix Park.

A picturesque former gardener’s lodge located in the Peoples' Garden, built c.1865 to designs by Enoch Trevor Owen, who was responsible for several lodges within the park. Although now largely screened from public view, the lively roof line, ornamented with clustered chimneystack and decorative dormers, enriches an otherwise modestly-scaled lodge, providing an attractive architectural element within the context of Phoenix Park. Other elements of note include the latticed Gothic-revival windows. The Lodge makes an important contribution to the rich and varied architectural heritage of Phoenix Park.