Gate screen, Scarvagh House, 31 Old Mill Road, Scarva, CRAIGAVON, Co Down, BT63 6NL

A symmetrical gate screen, built c.1835, located at the northern entrance to Scarvagh House, south of Scarva. It comprises a pair of tall ornate cast- and wrought-iron gates supported on gate piers of finely dressed V-jointed granite blocks, with slightly tapered cap supporting a pedestal carved with Greek key pattern, formerly surmounted by urns, now gone. The piers are flanked by screen walls of random rubble stone, having a sweeping profile and each inset with a square-headed pedestrian opening with dressed granite surround and matching iron gates. The screen is abutted to either side by the rubble stone estate wall, which curves from the entrance along the Old Mill Road. Setting: The gate screen occupies a rural setting, sheltered by mature trees; it leads to a lime avenue, which gives access through the wooded part of the demesne to Scarvagh House at south. Walling: Rubble stone Piers: Dressed granite Gates: Composite iron