'Stramore Lodge', 142 Warren Road, Portavoe, Donaghadee, Co Down, BT21 0PQ

Stramore Lodge is a large, sprawling two-storey house of around 1932 in the Arts & Crafts style, believed to be designed by the architects Blackwood & Jury. It is situated to the west of Warren Road, approximately 1.5 miles north-west of Donaghadee, in the townland of Portavoe, County Down.

The house was originally built around 1930 for Sir Samuel Kelly, a coal merchant. It originally contained two boilers—one using fresh water and the other sea water—and featured a large coal cellar. In 1945 it was purchased by the present owner's family, who undertook significant alterations: a large sun room was added to the south end, a garage to the north-west corner in the 1960s, and the original front doorway was blocked, with the main entrance relocated to the west elevation.

The building is characterised by its white-washed rough cast façade, splayed gabled roof with slight overhang and exposed rafter ends and plain barges, a variety of bays including one with a conical slate-clad roof, and three tall rounded rendered chimney stacks of Cumbrian-like character. Window frames are generally simple plain casements, though many on the east elevation have been replaced with PVC; those on the west elevation are mostly original, set into timber frames.

The west elevation, which now faces away from the road and contains the main entrance, is a complex composition of multiple bays and gables. The main entrance consists of a semicircular-headed opening with a curved hood supported on simple brackets, containing a timber-sheeted door with a small glazed panel. The elevation features a profusion of casement windows of varying sizes, many single pane, as well as a large two-storey asymmetric gable, a lower one-and-a-half-storey section, a shallow single-storey hipped-roof bay with a recessed porch, and the curved-ended sun room with pitched roof.

The east elevation, which was originally the front, is equally complex. It features a large two-storey rounded bay with tall conical roof containing three square-ish casement windows on each floor, various other bays and gables, and windows of differing sizes. The original main entrance on this side is marked by a hipped roof hood. At the right-hand end, the elevation drops to one-and-a-half storeys, with another single-storey rounded bay with hipped roof containing three casement windows.

The north elevation consists of a large projecting single-storey flat-roofed section with two small single-pane windows, a small gabled bay at first-floor level, and sections of façade without openings. The south elevation features the curved-ended sun room with large plate-glass windows, some curved in line with the wall, and two small single-pane windows to a set-back first-floor gable.

To the north-west of the house stands a smaller two-storey and single-storey gabled outbuilding with integral garage, similarly finished in white-washed rough cast with a slated overhanging roof. This was originally an outbuilding but has been converted to a dwelling in recent years. In the garden to the east of the house is a small, bunker-like cement-rendered structure that originally served as a pump house. The roof goods are a mixture of cast iron and PVC.