Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/06/007 D

Address :
Gate Lodge 440 Drumrane Road Dungiven Co Londonderry BT47 4PH

Townland:
Ballyguddin

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

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:
Yes

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OS Map No:
51/6

IG Ref:
C6838 1002

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Former gate house perpendicular to Drumrane Road set approximately ten metres behind boundary fence. Cast iron entrance gates at road with curving flanking baluster set on low rendered wall. Cast iron gate posts topped by finial, no manufacturer’s name, sweeping top rail of gate. Fleur de lis decoration to top of verticals. Lower section of arrowheads with cross scrap behind. Gate house roofless and derelict. Shell of building lime washed covering ashlar stonework on the east, road facing façade. Brickwork on the north (entrance drive) façade. Entrance in the north east corner. Two windows facing drive with one smaller window facing road. Window frames mostly gone. Stone cills. No external decoration to door and windows. Brickwork facades to other two elevations. No windows to rear. Single small window to south elevation.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The lodge is shown on the O.S. map Londonderry 24 References Primary Sources O.S. map 1832 Londonderry 24 O.S. map 1832 Rev. 1856 Londonderry 24 Griffiths V B 1858

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

The gate lodge is ruinous retaining little architectural detail of consequence apart from some stonework. The iron gates are probably of a later 19th cent. Date. Maybe of local historical interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 April 2000