71 Spring Farm Road, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2JG

A 1½ storey building, originally the gate lodge for Holywell Hospital and designed in the same architectural manner as the original hospital complex, but now used as a private house. Main entrance faces south. South elevation symmetrical; walling of red brick with moulded brick plinth and stringcourse; white painted plaster coving to eaves each side of a projecting central entrance bay which contains a small plain glazed elliptical window in the gable; natural slates to roof which is half-hipped to the gables at each end; modern glazed and panelled door set in an elliptically arched opening, with what looks like a later open porch with open timber gabled roof of natural slates and plain corner posts; one window in ground floor to each side of entrance, modern PVC windows, replacements for original timber sliding sashes, in segmental arched openings. Original east and west gables are two-storey, half-hipped, and contain similar windows to entrance front. Later rear extension is of two storeys, in modern brickwork, with synthetic slates to gabled roof, and rectangular window openings. SETTING: The building stands next to the main road, within its own garden, with its west side set back slightly from the main road and its entrance overlooking the driveway to the hospital complex which it was originally built for. It looks onto a large field beyond the hospital driveway. Front boundary walling of red brick to the west end, connected with the curved screen walls of the main entrance gateway to the hospital; with horizontal timber fencing to the east end; modern slatted timber gate leads to front porch.