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

Stramore Lodge is a large, sprawling two-storey house built around 1932 in the Arts and Crafts style. The building is believed to be designed by the architectural firm Blackwood & Jury. It stands to the west of Warren Road, approximately 1.5 miles north-west of Donaghadee, County Down.

The house is finished in white-washed rough cast with a splayed gabled roof in pagoda fashion, featuring a slight overhang with exposed rafter ends and plain barges. It is characterised by a variety of bays, including a distinctive conical roofed example, and three tall rounded rendered chimney stacks with a Cumbrian-like appearance. The window frames are generally simple plain casement variety, with most of those on the west elevation set into timber frames and appearing original, though many on the east elevation have been replaced with PVC frames.

The west elevation, which now faces away from the road and was originally the rear of the building, currently contains the main entrance. This is a complex elevation with a profusion of bays, both gabled and otherwise. The layout progresses from left to right: a single storey flat-roofed garage projection; a large two-storey asymmetric gable merging with a much lower one-and-a-half storey section; a shallow single storey hipped roof bay containing a recessed porch area with a first-floor gabled bay above; an exposed second storey section without bays or gables set further back; and on the south-facing gable a large sun room with curved end and pitched roof rising to a flat roof. The main entrance is located roughly at the centre of this elevation, within the low one-and-a-half storey section. It comprises a semicircular-headed opening with a semicircular-shaped hood above, supported on simple brackets. The door itself is timber-sheeted with a small glazed panel and matches the shape of the opening. Above and to the left of the doorway at half-landing level is a broad casement window. To the ground floor left are two small single-pane windows and a larger window with hopper opener. The first floor above these windows, within the large asymmetric gable, contains a large casement window with a much smaller single-pane window to its lower left at half-landing level. To the far left on the ground floor, within the single-storey flat-roofed garage section, is a large casement window. The south face of this section has a modern up-and-over garage door. Immediately to the right of the main entrance is a long single-storey hipped roof bay, with a relatively large recessed porch or veranda area on its left half, featuring a wide casement window to the back wall. To the right of the porch, where the façade projects again, is a larger casement window. The short south face of this section contains a narrow single-pane window. Out of the roof above the recessed porch rises a large slate-clad gabled bay with two narrow single-pane windows. To the right is a set-back portion of first-floor façade with a square casement window within a flat-roofed half-dormer. The short north elevation consists of a large projecting single-storey flat-roofed section with two small single-pane windows to the left, a relatively small gabled bay at first-floor level to the left, and a set-back portion of façade to the right of this, with both sections without openings. The short south elevation features the large curved-end sun room at ground-floor level with large plate glass windows, some of which have glazing curved in line with the wall. The set-back first-floor gable has two small single-pane windows.

The long east elevation, which was originally the front of the building, is as complex as that to the west. At the left-hand end is the sun room with its roof continuing to the right to form a veranda-like area, which has a large single-pane window to its back wall. Above the veranda at first-floor level is a square casement window within a flat-roofed half-dormer. To the right of the veranda is a large two-storey rounded bay with a tall conical roof. Each floor of the bay contains three square-ish casement windows. To the ground floor right of this bay are three windows of varying size, two with casement frames. The window immediately to the right of the bay marks the position of the original main entrance and retains the former entrance's hipped roof hood. The first floor has two casement windows of differing size, that to the right set within a relatively large gable. The right-hand end of the elevation drops to one-and-a-half storeys, with a single-storey rounded bay at ground-floor level with hipped roof rising to a flat area, similar to the sun room. This bay contains three casement windows. Set back above this, the upper-floor façade has a small casement window. The entire façade is finished in white-washed rough cast.

The building has undergone some alterations. A large sun room was added to the south end and a garage to the north-west corner in the 1960s. The original front doorway has been blocked.

To the north-west of the house is a relatively small two- and single-storey gabled dwelling with integral garage. This building, similar in style to the main house with white-washed rough cast façade and slated overhanging roof, 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 was originally a pump house.