Lodge, Weaver's Court Business Park, Linfield Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT12 5GH

A detached two-storey former gate lodge built circa 1855 in brick and stone, now recorded only and not listed. The building is square on plan and faces west, forming the principal entrance to Weaver's Court Business Park at the southern end of Linfield Road. It stands adjacent to a pair of tall basalt ashlar piers on an octagonal plan with matching tooled capstones, which support modern steel gates.

The lodge has a hipped natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles. A redbrick chimneystack with terracotta pot sits above, with replacement moulded iron rainwater goods to the redbrick eaves course. The southeast section features a flat felt-lined roof. The walling is redbrick laid in Flemish bond with lime pointing on the first floor and coursed rubble basalt on the ground floor to the north and east elevations only. The remaining elevations are finished in painted ruled and lined rendered walling. A continuous masonry string course runs between floors.

The windows are set within round-headed rubber redbrick panels, fitted with replacement timber casement windows and painted masonry sills. The west front elevation is four windows wide with two round-headed blind panels to each floor. A round-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door is positioned at the north end.

The symmetrical north side elevation is three windows wide. It contains a single camber-headed window opening to the ground floor and a blocked-up square-headed former door opening formed in basalt ashlar with a voussoired flat arch.

The east elevation displays original redbrick walling to the first floor of the earlier section, with later redbrick to a southern extension. The ground floor retains coursed rubble basalt walling, rendered to the extension. The south elevation, exposed as a gabled side adjacent to a twentieth-century flat-roofed extension, has plain painted rendered walling throughout.

The building was constructed circa 1855 as a gatehouse to the former Linfield Spinning Mill, which no longer survives. As such it represents an important physical reminder of the area's industrial heritage and of a concern that was for many years a major employer. The building first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858 and does not appear on an 1850 map, confirming its construction date between those years. The area, lying west of Sandy Row, was outside the urban area of Belfast until the 1850s. Linfield Mill opened in 1833, marking a shift in industrial focus from brickmaking. Tea Lane, now Rowland Way, originally provided the only access to the factory, and the gate lodge was built at the main western entrance.

The building is listed in Griffith's Valuation of 1860 as part of the Linfield Flax Spinning Mill and Weaving Factory complex, which comprised a gatehouse, offices, yards and a mill pond. The proprietors were William Murphy, Conway B Grimshaw, Isaac J Murphy and Joseph John Murphy. Though dimensions are recorded, the gatehouse was not separately valued and no occupant is listed. The total site valuation was £1150.

The lodge is not identifiable in census returns of 1901 or 1911. Street directories record occupants from 1911, listing Mrs Kennedy from 1911 to 1913 and the McVeigh family until 1929.

The windows have lost their original Georgian style glazing pattern, and the leading elevation has had its ground floor faced in quarry-faced stone. It is currently in use as a shop.