House [Hunting lodge] at Mount Stewart, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2RU(?)

Small, single storey picturesque ‘toy fort’ Gothick hunting lodge of c.1810, situated in a clearing within a wooded area in the N of the Mount Stewart estate, c.2 miles NW of Greyabbey. The roof is covered with Bangor blue slates with decorative barges and a finial. The roof of the main lodge lies behind the castellated parapet and is only visible from the rear N side. The front S facade is symmetrical has two slightly projecting outer bays each with a pointed arch window with casement frame with (now boarded) quatrefoil opening above. The outer wall of the bays are slightly battered. In the slightly recessed inner bay with gabled timber projecting porch. The porch has diagonally sheeted timber double doors with pointed arch sidelights and quatrefoil window in gable apex. The porch sides also have diagonal timber boarding. There is a quatrefoil opening (as outer bays) above the porch. The top of the facade is ‘castellated with stone pyramidal pinnacles to corners and inner edges of outer bays'. The E and W facades each have a similar arrangement as the outer front bays with castellations and pinnacles. Each side has a yellow brick chimney stack which rises from the castellations. The N edges of both the E and W sides each merge into a wall. The E wall joins on to a small single storey lean to outhouse. Its roof is covered in corrugated iron. The rear elevation is blank except for a small square opening in the centre into which is set a wooden frame with quatrefoil opening. The S, E and W facades are finished in lined render with sandstone dressings to openings. The rear is finished in rough cast.