Clandeboye Lodge Hotel (The George), (Former Ballysallagh Primary School), 10 Estate Road, Clandeboye, Bangor, Co Down, BT19 1UR

Clandeboye Lodge Hotel, set on the western edge of the Clandeboye Estate on Estate Road in Bangor, is a modern hotel complex built around the remnants of Ballysallagh Primary School, a picturesque gothic single-storey red brick building of around 1858. The original school building, now altered to two storeys, remains discernible but does not possess sufficient architectural or historic interest to warrant listing.

The complex comprises the substantially altered former school at its core, a large single-storey flat-roofed extension, and a separate two-storey modern bedroom block (The Lodge) to the east. The original schoolhouse stands to the east of the main complex.

The south-west and south-east elevations of the original school remain substantially intact and visible. The south-east elevation features a small gabled open timber-framed porch with slate lean-to roof on a brick base, protecting a pointed arch doorway with chamfered brick dressings. The door has vertical timber sheeting, is painted, and displays decorative wrought iron strap hinges. To the right is a four-light mullioned and transomed window with diamond panes, much obscured by vegetation. A large gabled feature contains a centred pointed arch window with ten-light transomed and mullioned glazing, each light containing diamond-pattern small panes. The gable has a narrow painted barge board set on a chamfered brick eaves course, with alternating bricks in the main arch painted black. Further right is another large gabled feature with a full-height eighteen-light mullioned and transomed window, followed by a further four-light mullioned and transomed window, again much obscured by greenery. A galvanised steel fire escape stair rises from a first-floor door centred in a small gable feature. To the immediate right stands a brick wall approximately eight feet high separating the area from the rear service yard. The remainder of the wall is finished in smooth render, with a small windowless flat-roof extension at its centre. A tall buttressed chimney stands to the right of the gable feature.

The north-west elevation shows a further gabled feature with a ten-light mullioned and transomed window, much obscured by vegetation. To its left is a slightly projecting modern brick entrance bay with castellated brick parapets, with the remainder of the wall in plain render. At the centre is a tall pointed arch feature with smooth cement dressing containing an unusual door surmounted by a semicircular arched window. To the far left is a wall with castellated parapet and a window-door feature almost obscured by greenery. A small plain pointed arch door sits at the far right. The north-east wall is plain rendered with three pointed arch openings on the right side; the central opening is glazed whilst those either side contain double fire escape glazed doors. The far right contains the service yard entrance.

The gables are finished with smooth stone copings. The roof is covered with asbestos slate with fire clay batten roll ridge tiles. Decorative ceramic tile features appear on the original brickwork, with a number of string courses highlighted, though these may be simply painted.

The school was commissioned by Lord Dufferin around 1858. William Burn submitted designs in 1850 and Benjamin Ferrey provided a further design in 1854, but neither was executed; the architect responsible for the building as constructed remains uncertain. In the mid-1970s the school was converted to licensed premises and substantially extended with the addition of large function rooms. The bedroom block (The Lodge) was constructed between 1992 and 1994 to designs by Alan Cook Architects.