Description

FORD B 6353 NT 93 NW (East side) 10/66 West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle GV II Lodge and gateway. 1866 probably by David Bryce for the Marchioness of Waterford. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style.

Lodge single storey. 3 short radiating wings with porch in angle between two of them. Porch has pointed-arched door and sidelights under hoodmould. Date and Lady Waterford's monogram in the gable. Towards road 3 bays; left bay projecting at an angle with a 6-light canted bay window on the gable end; to right two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. Gabled roof with ridged and roll-moulded coping, kneelers and ridge stack of 4 clustered shafts. Bands of purple and blue slate.

To left screen wall and gatepiers. Castellated octagonal gatepiers flanked by arcades of 20 pointed arches. The rearing horses on the piers added by Lord Joicey after 1907.

Listing NGR: NT9399037492

External Links

• Wikidata Q26446690

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