Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/06/019

Address :
Gate Lodge Greenmount Lodge 38 Greenmount Road Omagh Co. Tyrone BT79 0QU

Townland:
Beagh

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
02/09/2010 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:
Yes

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OS Map No:
157-15

IG Ref:
H5128 6197

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached two-bay single-storey rendered former gate lodge, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan, facing east with its north side elevation fronting onto the avenue of Greenmount Lodge. Now derelict. Hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and central tooled stone ashlar chimneystack. Projecting stone eaves form lintels to the central door openings. Rainwater goods are gone. Ruled and lined pigmented lime render over rubble stone walling with rusticated lime render quoins to east front and north side elevations. Four-bay front east elevation comprises symmetrical composition of a pair of central square-headed door openings with a single gothic-arched window opening to either side. Stone eaves form the lintels with Gibbsian lime rendered surrounds on squared plinth blocks. Timber frames with doors missing. Lion’s head roundel plaque formed in lime render positioned between door openings. Pointed-headed window openings formed in red brick with stone sills and render hood moulding (to left window only). Multi-pane timber sash window incorporating Y-tracery to the upper sash (to left window only). Single-bay south side elevation has corrugated iron to roof with iron ridge to stone eaves. Rubble stone walling with some rusticated render quoins visible. Central square-headed window opening formed in red brick with timber lintel, stone sill and side-hung 8/8 timber sash window. West rear elevation is blind with red brick eaves and rubble stone wall having a carved stone drain spout to the left. Single-bay north side elevation fronting onto the avenue of Greenmount Lodge with a free-standing tall rendered pier to the east. Iron ridges to the natural slate roof to stone lined eaves. The eaves stone continues east to form a lintel over opening between house and pier. Rubble stone walling with some ruled-and-lined pigmented lime render and rusticated lime render quoins. Central pointed-headed window opening with render hood moulding and stone sill (window blocked up in concrete block). Tall square-plan pier is ruled-and-lined lime render with a lion’s head roundel plaque (as per front elevation), with a matching pier on the other side of the avenue (north). Setting Lodge located half-way down the tree-lined avenue to the rebuilt Greenmount Lodge. Set perpendicular to the avenue with its north side elevation fronting onto the avenue with a pair of tall rendered piers to either side of the avenue, now filled in with rubble stone and a previously lime-rendered rubble stone wall extending along the avenue to the east. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Lime render/rubble stone Windows: timber sash RWG: None

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The lodge is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833, along with the main house which is captioned ‘Greenmount’. The 1852 map shows a similar building on the opposite side of the road and a 'Gate Lodge' approximately 200 yards away to the north The OS memoirs for the parish note that ‘...John Galbraith Esquire of Greenmount’ is a local landlord. Griffiths Valuation of 1858 records the occupier of Greenmount as Jane Galbraith, the property; a ‘house, offices and land’ is leased from the Earl of Belmore, and the buildings are valued at £27. Valuation Revisions also record two smaller houses under the same plot number, one of which is deleted in 1877 (it is possible this refers to the gate lodges). The occupier of Greenmount is revised to John L Galbraith in 1874, to Robert Orr Clements in 1882 and to William Lanvin in 1926. The building valuation decreases to £20 in 1882. Two lodges at Greenmount are mentioned by Dean but he believes them both to have been demolished. (p.143) References: Primary Sources 1.PRONI OS/6/6/51/1 -First Edition OS Map (1833) 2.PRONI OS/6/6/51/2 -Second Edition OS Map (1852) 3.PRONI OS/6/6/51/3 -Third Edition OS Map (1906) 4.PRONI VAL/2/B/6/32A-B -Griffiths Valuation (1858) 5.PRONI VAL/12/B/41/14A –Valuation Revisions (1860-1929) 6.Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Tyrone I, 1821, 1823, 1833-36, Vol. 5.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1990. Secondary Sources Dean, J. A. K. “The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer.” Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest Z. Rarity

Evaluation

Detached two-bay single-storey rendered gate lodge, built c.1830. The surviving remnants of the pigmented lime render finish with its decorative lion’s head plaques and rusticated quoins are a clear indication of the level of decoration and craftsmanship employed in this building. The semi-detached plan form and separate pedestrian gate are both very unusual features. A diminutive but accomplished composition, its original character is that of a fine nineteenth-century estate lodge.

General Comments

Date of Survey

30 April 2009