Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/03/021

Address :
Lodge at Hillmount 357 Old Glenarm Road Drains Carncastle Larne, Co Antrim BT40 2LG

Townland:
Drains

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
13/11/1979 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:
70/3

IG Ref:
D3888 0535

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A single-storey three-bay gate lodge with roughly rendered and whitewashed walls and hipped roof with wide eaves overhang. Main entrance faces south-east. Entrance front comprises a central semi-circular entrance recess fronted by a recessed timber lintel and central keystone, painted blue, flanked by a rectangular window either side. Windows vertically hung timber sliding sash, 6 over 6; stone cills. Panelled door is set off-centre in recess. Roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with a tall centrally placed red brick chimney; two pots in buff earthenware. PVC gutter but part of it missing; returns of gutter and gutter to rear include sections in tin and asbestos, all inappropriate; two asbestos downpipes to rear. Extending to left-hand side of entrance front, and set back, is yard wall, rendered and painted white, with flat sandstone coping mounted with chisel-capped sandstone crenellations; rectangular doorway in yard wall. Side and rear elevations of lodge are of plain character, with one window in side wall to right-hand side; similar character to front windows. SETTING: The building stands in a rural area, in a secluded
setting surrounded by trees, together with a gateway, close to the main road and facing onto the driveway leading to the main house (HB06/03/022). The gateway consists of two circular iron posts with ball finials, on which are mounted a pair of plain iron gates. There is a small pedestrian gate to the left-hand side, and rubble screen walls roughly plastered and whitewashed extend in a curve to each side of the gates: crudely re-rendered in part.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built as the gate lodge to Hillmount (Ref no. HB06/03/022). It appears on the first OS map of 1833 and may be dated to c. 1800. References - Primary 1. OS Map 1833, Co Antrim 35. Secondary 1. J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, Belfast, 1994), p 17.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A late Georgian gate lodge of much charm which retains most of its original features including its unusual porch arrangement.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 June 1997