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

This is a late 19th-century building, originally designed as a gate lodge for Holywell Hospital by the prominent Irish architect John Lanyon around 1894-9. It is now used as a private house and has lost some of its original features and architectural character.

The building is one-and-a-half storeys high and was designed in a style matching the original hospital complex. The main entrance faces south, and the south elevation is symmetrical. It is constructed of red brick with a moulded brick plinth and stringcourse. White painted plaster coving runs along the eaves above a projecting central entrance bay, which features a small, plain, glazed, elliptical window in the gable. The roof is covered in natural slates, half-hipped at each end. A modern, glazed and panelled door is set within an elliptically arched opening, and is sheltered by a later open porch with an open timber gabled roof of natural slates and plain corner posts. Modern PVC windows replace original timber sliding sash windows in segmental arched openings; there is one window on each side of the entrance on the ground floor. The original east and west gables are two-storey and half-hipped, also containing windows similar to those on the front elevation. A two-storey rear extension, built later, is of modern brickwork with a gabled roof covered in synthetic slates and rectangular window openings.

The building stands next to the main road, within its own garden. The west side is set back slightly, and the entrance overlooks the driveway to the hospital complex. It looks onto a large field beyond the hospital driveway. A red brick front boundary wall connects with the curved screen walls of the main hospital entrance gateway on the west end; horizontal timber fencing is on the east end. A modern slatted timber gate leads to the front porch.

The gate lodge ceased functioning as such by 1994, suffered vandalism that included the destruction of its original stairway by fire, and was sold to a private owner in 1995.