Black Glen Lodge Cottage, Tunnel Brae, Castlerock, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4RH

Detached symmetrical two-bay single-storey with attic stone former gate lodge, built c.1875, with central entrance porch and set at a right angle to entrance gates to Downhill Estate. T-shaped on plan facing north with lean-to rear extension. Located at the north easternmost entrance to the Downhill Estate (HB03/12/015A-I). Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and central stone and brick chimneystack with octagonal clay pot. Replacement cast-iron guttering supported on timber fascia to sheeted overahanging eaves with exposed rafter feet and cast-iron downpipes. Random coursed rock-faced basalt walling, tooled to the quoins only. Square-headed window openings with stop-chamfered painted masonry lintels, painted stone sills and replacement 2/2 timber sash windows. Front north elevation is two windows wide with a central square-headed door opening having lintel as per windows, replacement timber panelled door opening into catslide canopy supported on stop-chamfered timber frame rising from low basalt walls with concrete coping. East gable has a single window opening to the attic level. Rear elevation abutted by central extension having a catslide slate roof at a different angle. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings to the rear elevation, with cement rendered walls to the extension and a sheeted timber door to the east. West gable has a pair of windows to the attic level. Setting Located at the northeasternmost entrance to the Downhill Estate set at a right angle to a pair of tall basalt gate piers with stacked coping supporting replacement iron gates. The site is enclosed to the north and east by tall rubblestone walls with stacked coping and a pedestrian entrance to the south pier with matching iron gate and a further pedestrian gate to the north boundary wall. Gates provide public access to the estate via gravel driveway. Roof Natural slate RWG Replacement cast-iron Walling Random coursed rock-faced basalt Windows Replacement 2/2 timber sash