Gate Lodge, 4 Coach Road, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PP

Single storey orné influenced gate lodge of c.1850, set at the main (NE) entrance to the Portaferry House demesne. To the rear is a large extension, added in 1983. The lodge is set to the W of Deerpark Road, at short distance to the N of Portaferry. The front (N) elevation is asymmetrical and comprises of a recessed bay with porch to the left, and a projecting bay to the right. The recessed bay contains a plain timber sheeted door to its left side and a casement window, with centre mullion and centre horizontal astragal to both panes, to the right. Stone cill. The roof of the porch consists of part of the large overhang of the main roof, supported on three octagonal wooden posts, and has a timber lined ceiling. To the left the porch is open ended. The bay to the right has a centred casement window with stone cill as before. The east elevation is composed of a side of the extension, to the left, and a gable of the original lodge, to the right. The extension has a centred (rear) door and a casement door to the left with a similar casement window to the right of the door on the corner of a smaller flat roofed extension set within the crux of the ‘L’ between the larger extension original building. Modern slim concrete cills to all extension windows. Small casement window set on stone cill to gable of original lodge. The south elevation comprises the gable of the extension, which is blank, and a side of the small flat roofed extension with corner window as described above. West elevation- This elevation consists of a gable of the original building containing a mullioned and transomed bay window with hipped roof with Bangor blue slates and lead flashing, and a side of the extension with a small high level casement window to the left and a larger casement window to the right. All windows on this elevation have slim concrete cills. The façade of the original portion of the building is unrendered and white washed. The extension is finished in rough cast and painted. Pitched roof with Bangor blue slates and lead flashing to ridges. Chimney in centre of roof of original section of lodge, with narrow twin square stacks (set at an angle so as to appear diamond shaped) and matching pots. Large overhang to verge and eaves with timber panelling to soffits and decorative barge boards.. No gutter to north elevation, PVC gutters and down spouts to rear.