Gate Lodge to Lismachan House, 376 Belmont Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT4 2NF

Detached two-bay single-storey stucco-fronted gate lodge, built in 1872, as the gate lodge to Lismachan House (HB26/12/002A), to the designs of Thomas Jackson. Square on plan facing west with front entrance porch and rear extension. Located on a mature corner site within the grounds of Lismachan House between Belmont Road and Glenmachan Road. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, lead valleys and a single profiled and corbelled rendered chimneystack with clay pots. Replacement steel guttering to overhanging timber sheeted eaves having carved corbels and square steel downpipes. Cement sprayed ruled-and-lined walling with projecting plinth course having moulded trim, continuous sill and impost mouldings with rusticated quoins. Generally square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, hood mouldings and original single-pane sliding timber sash windows. West front elevation comprises a large gabled bay to the left and advanced gabled entrance porch to the right, both having bracketed overhanging eaves. Round-headed window opening to the gabled bay and voussoired round-headed door opening to the porch with original panelled timber door with bolection moulding and plain semi-circular fanlight. The porch also has slender window openings to the cheeks. Door opens onto single sandstone step to front area. Two-bay north side elevation with symmetrically-placed square headed windows. Rear elevation now obscured by flat-roofed extension with rear gable visible. Sheeted timber door and timber casement windows to extension. Single-bay gabled south side elevation with paired round-headed window openings with bowtel-moulded surrounds, otherwise detailed as per front gable. Setting: Located on a mature landscaped site at the southwest corner of the grounds to Lismachan House (HB26/12/002A) behind the Belmont Road boundary wall. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement steel Walling Cement sprayed stucco Windows Original sliding timber sash