The Lodge, 135 Old Newry Road, Ballyvally, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3NB

The Lodge is a symmetrical detached single-storey twin-gabled villa with adjoining two-storey hipped-roofed outbuildings, built around 1840 and located on the north side of Old Newry Road south of Banbridge town centre in County Down.

The building is U-shaped on plan with a central round watch tower. The principal southeast elevation is symmetrically arranged with gabled bays containing tall canted bay windows with panelled aprons and heads, divided by pilasters and flanking a square pilastered porch. The porch has a dentilled cornice and features a round-headed 1/1 window with margin panes to the southeast. Access is via the northeast side through a granite step to a raised-and-fielded five-panel timber door with brass furniture, surmounted by a transom light moulded to impost level. A matching recess appears to the southwest. The southwest elevation has three 4/4 windows to the right and paired 4/4 windows to the left. The northeast elevation displays five evenly-spaced 4/4 windows.

The pitched natural slate roof features blue and black angled ridge tiles, bargeboards to the gables, and rendered chimneystacks with tall terracotta pots. At the centre rises a conical copper-roofed round watch tower topped by a weathervane. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods sit on projecting eaves, with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes throughout.

The walling is painted ruled-and-lined render on a contrasting plinth. Windows are a variety of timber-framed sliding sash with projecting painted sills; multi-paned tall timber-casements light the canted bays.

The adjoining two-storey outbuildings are arranged in a U-shape to the rear (northwest), forming a central yard. These have hipped natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and are finished in ruled-and-lined painted render, with roughcast render to the northwest elevation and smooth render to the southwest gable. The northeast elevation has five 4/4 windows to the first floor and four to the ground floor, with a central elliptical-headed carriage arch containing timber-sheeted gates at ground floor. A modern projecting porch has been added to the rear northwest elevation.

The property sits on a large site accessed from Old Newry Road to the southeast by a long tarmac avenue lined with young trees. The original entrance comprises cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis heads on a curved granite plinth, with cast-iron piers topped by acorn caps supporting original gates. A secondary access to the north side of Old Newry Road features red-brick and rendered square gate piers with pointed caps and original cast-iron gates.

To the northwest, a converted coach-house has three segmental-headed arch openings with modern timber-sheeted gates; the central opening is flanked by two timber-casement windows. Red-brick and rock-faced stone gate piers with pointed caps and an original cast-iron latch-gate mark the entrance here. A landscaped garden lies to the southwest, and a walled garden with modern conservatory to the northeast.