Lodge, 10 Dromara Road, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5EU

No. 10 Dromara Road is a one-and-a-half-storey gate lodge built around 1905 to the designs of Henry Hobart. It was formerly associated with the Cowan Heron Hospital, which stands to the south-east, and is now a private dwelling.

The lodge has a rectangular plan form with abutments and a projecting porch. A substantial extension to the rear, added in 1995, detracts from the original proportions and style, though much of the historic character and original fabric survives despite these alterations.

The building is constructed of red brick laid to Flemish bond with a moulded plinth course to cill level and raised long-and-short brick quoins. The roof is pitched with rosemary tiles, crested terracotta ridge tiles, and moulded gable finials. The moulded barge boards and exposed rafter ends are characteristic of the Edwardian period. A decorative red-brick chimneystack with incised corners and corbelled upper courses is topped with terracotta pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external services.

Windows throughout are timber casement with leaded lattice glazing, set without cills except for projected masonry cills to the upper floors. The principal entrance features a double-leaf timber panelled door beneath a round-headed alcove with impost moulding and a decorative terracotta keyblock to the voussoirs. A round-headed lattice-leaded fanlight sits above a moulded timber cornice.

The principal gable faces north in a symmetrical arrangement, with a projected tripartite bay window topped by a hipped roof. A single bipartite window to the first floor is surmounted by a timber Tudor-style apex. The east elevation is asymmetrically arranged, with the historic right side abutted by a single-storey gabled return featuring a canted bay window with timber Tudor-style gable head. The gabled entrance porch occupies the right cheek, with a single window to the left cheek. The modern rear extension, added in 1995, is styled to echo the original with bay windows and half-timbering detail, but includes a large uPVC conservatory of no historic interest. The west elevation is asymmetrically arranged with a single small window located right of centre to the upper floor.

The lodge was designed by Henry William Edward Hobart, likely one of his first commissions following the formation of the architectural partnership Hobart & Heron in 1904. It appears to reflect the Arts-and-Crafts style of the 1898 hospital building. The 1911 Census records occupation by Thomas Spence, a hospital servant, with his wife and family. The building was originally valued as part of the hospital's combined valuation and ceased to function as a gate lodge prior to the 1970 Ordnance Survey edition.

The setting includes decorative wrought-iron gates at the entrance (HB17/11/014D) and gardens to the rear. A modern red-brick garage, added in 2000, stands further south. Despite the substantial rear extension, the lodge remains a good example of its type and holds group value with the hospital. The building was listed in 1994, the same year as the Cowan Heron Hospital.