Greengate Lodge, 97 Largy Road, Crumlin, Co Antrim

Greengate Lodge is a 19th-century gate lodge of some local interest, reflecting the development of the Langford Lodge estate. While it retains some features, its original architectural character has been diminished by later alterations.

The lodge is a building of one-and-a-half storeys with an asymmetrical layout, characterised by steeply pitched roofs and elaborate ornamental timber bargeboards to the oversailing eaves. These bargeboards incorporate trefoil motifs. The south-east facing entrance elevation features rectangular and segmental-arched window openings, now containing modern replacement timber windows, including fixed lights with top-hung vents. The roofs are covered with Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses, complemented by metal rainwater goods. The walls are smooth cement-rendered, lined, and painted white. A main rendered chimney includes a moulded cornice with dentils and two modern pots. Later single-storey, flat-roofed extensions have been added to both the front and rear of the building, including a porch that now encloses the original main entrance. The original entrance itself retains a segmental-headed archway featuring an original six-panel door. Although much of the original detail and quality has been lost, a shield motif surmounted by a Tudor label moulding remains in the apex of the north-east gable.

The lodge was built as a gate lodge for the Langford Lodge estate, which belonged to the Pakenham family. The precise date of construction is unrecorded, and the architect is unknown, but it likely dates from shortly after the publication of the 1858 Ordnance Survey map. A different gate lodge is shown on that 1858 map, located on the opposite side of the driveway.

The building is set within a rural location, with a modern gateway providing access to the former country house estate, which is now used as an industrial complex. It faces directly onto the approach road and driveway, with a lawn situated to the rear.

The lodge was originally used as a gate and screen, and currently serves the same purpose. Construction is tentatively dated between 1860 and 1879.