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

Detached two-storey brick and stone former gate lodge, built c.1855 with pair of octagonal stone piers. Square on plan facing west and forming the principal entrance to Weaver's Court Business Park at the southern end of Linfield Road. Hipped natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, redbrick chimneystack with terracotta pot and replacement moulded iron rainwater goods to redbrick eaves course. The southeast section has a flat felt-lined roof. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond with lime pointing to the first floor and rubble basalt to the ground floor on the north and east elevations only, painted ruled and lined rendered walling to remainder, with continuous masonry string course betwen floors. Rubbered redbrick round-headed windows openings set within round-headed panels with replacement timber casement windows and painted masonry sills. West front elevation is four windows wide with two round-headed blind panels to each floor and a round-headed door opening to the north end having replacement timber panelled door. Symmetrical north side elevation is three windows wide with a single camber-headed window opening to the ground floor and a blocked up square-headed former door opening formed in basalt ashlar with voussoired flat-arch. East elevation has its original redbrick walling to the first floor of the earlier section with later redbrick to the southern extension, while the ground floor retains its coursed rubble basalt walling, rendered to the extension. South side elevation exposes the gabled side elevation adjacent to the flat-roofed twentieth-century extension, all having plain painted rendered walling. Setting: Square on plan facing west and forming the principal entrance to Weaver's Court Business Park at the southern end of Linfield Road. To the west is a pair of tall basalt ashlar piers on a octagonal plan with matching tooled capstones supporting modern steel gates. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement metal Walling Redbrick/ Basalt / Ruled and lined render Windows Replacement timber casement