Gate Lodge, Banbridge Cemetery, 101 Newry Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4LJ

A two-storey two-bay gabled basalt gate lodge at the entrance to Banbridge cemetery, dated 1883 and built to designs by Young and McKenzie. Located to the west side of Banbridge Road north of Banbridge town centre. T-shaped plan with adjoining portacabin to rear (of no interest). Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and two tall red-brick chimneystacks having yellow brickwork detailing and moulded caps with terracotta pots; bracketed timber struts and bargeboards to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves with exposed rafter ends. Walling is random coursed basalt rubble with yellow brick dressings and chamfered yellow brick plinth. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding sash with horns on projecting stone sills with yellow brick surround; two-centred depressed gothic arched to first floor. The majority of the windows have modern decorative steel security bars. The principal elevation faces north; gabled bay to right has a window to centre at first floor; two-centred depressed gothic arch encompasing a 2/2 square-headed window to ground floor left and replacement six-panelled timber door surmounted by a slated lean-to canopy on timber brackets to right. Left bay is set back and has a square-headed window to ground floor surmounted by a sandstone plaque with decorated shield and scrolled band reading “1883 PER DEUM ET INDUSTRIAM”. The east elevation has a window to centre at ground and first floor. The south (rear) elevation is almost entirely abutted at ground floor by a modern portacabin of no interest; gabled bay at left has two windows to first floor; exposed right bay is blank and surmounted by a wall-headed chimneystack. The west elevation is symmetrical and has a wall-headed chimneystack with flanking blind windows to first floor. Setting Set inside the stone boundary wall of the cemetery on the south side of the main entrance. Surrounded on three sides by a stone wall with metal gate to front. Small tarmacadam yard to front and steps to rear leading to cemetery. Entrance gates have square stone piers on a smooth plinth with gabled sandstone caps having carved Gothic panels; supporting original cast-iron gates. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Basalt Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron