Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB01/27/016

Address :
South Gate Lodge Ballynagard House Culmore Road Londonderry BT48 8JH

Townland:
Ballynagard

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
26/02/1979 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Former Use
Gates/ Screens/ Lodges

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
27/5

IG Ref:
C4641 2198

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A three bay wide single storey stone built lodge with brick trim, hipped slated roofs and central chimney with segmental stone porch. The principal elevation faces south. The stone porch has brick trim now painted black and cream and on either side there is a boarded-up window also with brick trim. In each gable there is a centrally placed window. There is no window to the rear. A half round PVC gutter forms the eaves on natural slated roof with blue/black ridge and hip tiles. The stonework of the lodge is random rubble schist, much of it built in the same manner as part of one of the back returns of the main house. This refers to the large binder stones used at the corners. The entrance gates consist of main wrought iron decorative double gates hung from square sandstone ashlar piers with pyramidal copings. Straight wing walls are built of rubble schist stonework with band stone coping and pierced with square headed lateral pedestrian openings each hung with single wrought iron decorative gates. These openings are brick trimmed. Curved random rubble schist walls swing out from the straight walls to the back of the footwalk to Culmore Road.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

As both gate lodges are referred to in Griffiths Valuation 1858 they are pre mid-century. Dean suggests this lodge is 20 years later than the north lodge and circa 1850. The architect, Fitzgibbon Louch, worked on the main house (HB01/27/015) and may have had an influence on this building. References: Primary Sources: OS Map 1st Edition 1830 Co Londonderry 14 OS Map 2nd Edition 1853 Co Londonderry 14 OS Map 1904-5 Revision Co Londonderry 14A Ornance Survey Memoirs Parish of Templemore ( OS 1837) Griffiths Valuation 1858 Secondary Sources: JAK Dean ' The Gate Lodges of Ulster- a gazetteer' p111 HT Heart ' The family history of Heart of Donegal.' London: Mitchell Huges & Clarke, 1907

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A late Georgian simple gate lodge with Georgian style gates, piers and wall. The composition of lodge and gates and walling deserves to be listed.

General Comments

Date of Survey

05 March 1999