Gate lodges at Manor House, 33 and 35 Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh, BT61 8HZ

These are a pair of early Victorian gate lodges in an ornate neo-Jacobean style, built around 1842 for Arthur Cope and forming part of the entrance to the Manor House demesne. They first appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1860. No architect's name has been recorded. The lodges are similar in design but not identical to one another, each of single storey with a basement, and together with the associated gatescreen they form an impressive entrance group. The estate, including both lodges, was purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1947. The buildings stand within the area of monument Armagh 8:9 and within a conservation area.

EAST LODGE (No. 35 Main Street)

The main entrance front faces south-west. This elevation is single storey and two bays wide, comprising a recessed entrance bay to the left of a projecting gabled bay. The roof is covered in fish-scale shaped slates. The walls are of roughly polygonal and lozenge-shaped limestone rubble with cut-stone dressings and quoins at the corners. There is a projecting moulded cut-stone plinth in two stages, a moulded sandstone cornice, and sandstone gable copings, pinnacles, and finials.

The recessed entrance bay contains the main entrance within an open porch. The door is an original arched and panelled timber door set in a moulded Tudor arched surround. The porch is open to the front and one side, flat-roofed, with a corner pier of tapering square section. This pier has a diamond-panelled base, strapwork to the shaft, and an Ionic capital, from which spring open elliptical arches to the front and side, with rusticated and diamond-facetted voussoirs, leading to responding pilasters of similar design. Shaped stone brackets carry a moulded entablature around the front and side of the porch. The porch is approached by two stone steps at both the front and side. There is a cast iron downpipe within the open porch.

The projecting gable is of shaped form with five pinnacles; the finial to the topmost pinnacle is missing, but the remainder have ogee pyramidal finials. The central oriel window is of canted form with a lead-dressed roof that reduces in stages to a point, corbelled out to the sill in timber. It contains a four-light timber casement window with small elongated hexagonal panes and metal glazing bars. Above, in the apex of the gable, is a raised coat-of-arms of the Cope family, in what appears to be Coade stone or sandstone, inscribed with the motto 'Equo Adeste Animo', though parts are missing.

The north-west elevation, facing the main street, is single storey and two bays wide, comprising a projecting shaped gable to the left of the recessed open entrance porch. The walling matches the main entrance front. The projecting gable is similar to that on the entrance front, except that the oriel window here is two-light and of rectangular form, supported on three shaped timber brackets.

The north-east elevation is single storey with a basement due to the sloping site. It comprises a gable to the left of a chimney stack, with a deep lean-to block projecting forward. The main block has a slated roof as before, walls of rubble limestone with sandstone quoins, and sandstone gable copings. The ashlar sandstone chimney stack has moulded haunching and a tall re-used octagonal stoneware pot, which is a replacement for an ornamented original that is now missing. There is a moulded cast iron gutter and cast iron downpipe. The lower projecting block has a front wall of snecked rubble limestone with side walls of polygonal rubble and roughly squared quoins. It has a lean-to modern glazed roof between modern concrete copings. The front wall contains a small modern rectangular plate glass window and a modern rectangular timber sheeted door set in brick jambs. The right-hand side wall has a Tudor arched opening filled with modern plate glass, and the left-hand side wall has a smooth cement-rendered base.

The south-east elevation has a slated roof as before and walling as on the main block, with a two-tier plinth. There is a projecting central chimney breast of polygonal limestone rubble with cut-stone dressings and weatherings, rising to a cut-stone stack with moulded haunching and an octagonal stoneware pot. The part-basement area is of smooth cement render and contains a small modern rectangular plate glass window.

The lodge stands on the north side of the driveway, with a small garden plot in front of the entrance front gable. The driveway is tarmac, with a gravel path along the north-west side of the lodge and grassed areas to the other sides. The west lodge faces across the driveway. The gatescreen (listed separately) bounds the site to the north-west.

WEST LODGE (No. 33 Main Street)

The main entrance faces north-east. This elevation is single storey and two bays wide, comprising a recessed entrance bay to the right of a projecting gabled bay. The roof is of fish-scale shaped slates. The walls are of roughly polygonal-shaped rubble with cut-stone dressings and quoins at the corners, a projecting moulded cut-stone plinth in two stages, a moulded sandstone cornice, and sandstone gable copings, pinnacles, and finials.

The recessed entrance bay contains the main entrance within an open porch. The door is an original arched and panelled timber door set in a moulded Tudor arched surround. The porch is open to the front and one side, flat-roofed, with a corner pier of tapering square section having a diamond-panelled base, strapwork to the shaft, and an Ionic capital. Open elliptical arches spring to the front and side with rusticated and diamond-facetted voussoirs, leading to responding pilasters of similar design. Shaped stone brackets carry a moulded entablature around the front and side. The porch is approached by two stone steps at both the front and side, with a cast iron downpipe within the porch.

The projecting gable is of shaped form with five pinnacles; the finial to the topmost is missing, but the remainder have ogee pyramidal finials. The central oriel window is of canted form with a lead-dressed roof reducing in stages to a point, corbelled out to the sill. It contains a four-light timber casement window with small elongated hexagonal panes and metal glazing bars. Above, in the apex of the gable, is a raised coat-of-arms of the Cope family, in what appears to be Coade stone or sandstone, inscribed with the motto 'Equo Adeste Animo', though parts are missing.

The south-east elevation has a slated roof as before and walling as the entrance front, with a rubble stone base to the two-tier plinth. There is a projecting central chimney breast of polygonal rubble with cut-stone dressings and weatherings, moulded stone haunching, and an octagonal stoneware pot.

The south-west elevation is single storey with a basement due to the sloping site. It comprises a rubble stone wall to the left with a slightly projecting gable to the right, rubble stonework throughout with quoins at the corners. The basement area of the gable is of smooth cement render, stepping up to cover part of the ground floor area. The gable contains a small modern rectangular plate glass window and a modern rectangular timber boarded door, both in plain reveals. The recessed walls to the left have moulded cast iron gutters and a cast iron downpipe. There is an ashlar sandstone chimney stack with an octagonal stoneware pot. Stone steps project forward at the base of the wall, running from basement ground level up to street level.

The north-west elevation, facing the main street, is single storey and two bays wide, comprising a projecting shaped gable to the right of the recessed open entrance porch. The walling matches the main entrance front. The projecting gable is similar to that on the entrance front, except that the oriel window is two-light and of rectangular form, supported on three shaped timber brackets.

The lodge stands on the south side of the driveway, with a small garden plot in front of the entrance front gable. The driveway is tarmac, with a gravelled area to the main street front and grassed areas to the other sides. The east lodge faces across the driveway. The gatescreen bounds the site to the north-west.