Former gate lodge, 702 Antrim Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim, BT15 5GQ

Detached three-bay single-storey asymmetric Italianate-style gate-lodge on ‘L-shaped’ plan, built c.1885, architect unknown but possibly to the designs of Robert Young or Charles West and having series of single-story extensions to south-west. The building is set back from the Antrim Road and adjacent to a private access road leading to Cavehill Country Park. Stone and rendered boundary wall encloses site to south and east with outbuilding to north-west. Hipped and pitched slate roof with rooflights having terracotta roll-top ridge tiles and exposed scrolled rafter ends; overhanging eaves with painted soffit. Half-round cast-iron gutter discharging to circular downpipes. Pair of three-stage lined and ruled rendered chimney stacks with cornice coping. Semi-circular headed openings with raised smooth sandstone dressings and integral sill with one over one timber sliding sash windows, unless otherwise stated. Front elevation faces north-east and is three-bay with projecting gable to east and central entrance door. Walling comprises of rock-faced coursed basalt having dressed margins with smooth sandstone plinth course. Venetian window to projecting gable with replacement timber sliding sash windows. Raised and fielded six-panelled timber entrance door set within semi-circular opening having cut-stone moulded surround. South-east elevation comprises of three projecting gables having rock-faced coursed basalt walling to east, smooth lined and ruled rendered walling to central bay and timber-framed glazed wall set within smooth rendered walling to west. South-west elevation comprises of four-bays having smooth rendered walling. Square-headed openings with smooth rendered plaster band and one over one timber sliding sash windows. North-west elevation is four-bay with square-headed openings, smooth sandstone dressings and one over one timber sliding sash windows. Setting: Building is set back from the Antrim Road and adjacent to a private access road leading to Belfast Castle(HB26.51.001) and is enclosed by stone boundary wall to south and east and outbuilding to north-west. Outbuilding has pitched and hipped slate roof with saw-tooth terracotta ridges tiles, smooth cement rendered walls and square-headed opening to double timber sheeted doors. Mature hedge and tree boundary to north-east and north-west, lawns to south. Approached from north-east via stone steps leading to entrance door with rendered retaining wall forming garden to east and gravel pathway leading to south. Square-plan gate piers with cement coping set within stepped rendered boundary to north-east forming gateways to outbuilding and entrance door with decorative metal gates inset. Rock-faced coursed basalt boundary wall on curved plan to south having three-stage rendered piers inset with flat coping. Roof: Natural Slate RWG: Cast-iron Walls: Basalt & Render Windows: One over one timber sliding sash