Glendun Lodge, Cushendun, Co.Antrim

Glendun Lodge is a two-storey house with basement, built around 1812 to 1833, situated in parkland to the south-west of Glendun Road near Cushendun in County Antrim, overlooking the Glen to the north. The building was constructed by General Edmund McNeill, a local landowner, to designs by an unknown architect. A carved panel bearing the McNeill crest in the dining room chimney brace confirms McNeill's connection to the house. The lodge underwent internal renovations in 1980 following fire damage in 1979. It is located close to Glenmona Lodge to the south-east and a caravan park to the north.

The main building has a rectangular plan-form with a projecting bay to the right side of the principal elevation. The principal south-west elevation faces the Glen and is accessed via a gravel avenue from the Glendun Road to the north. It is five bays wide at ground floor level, aligned with the bays above on the first floor. The walling is white painted rough-cast render. A central recessed doorway contains a painted timber door with decorative glazed top panes, side lights, and a transom light over. The doorway is topped by a canopy supported on carved painted timber brackets on carved pilasters, with a doorbell to the right and a wall-mounted lantern light to the left. There are two window bays flanking the doorway on either side.

The windows throughout are timber sliding sash with horns and exposed box frames painted in a contrasting colour, while the projecting bay on the right side has replacement small-pane Georgian timber casement windows. The pitched slate roof has a metal ridge and four stone chimney stacks at mid-ridge, each topped with octagonal buff clay pots. The overhanging eaves feature timber panelled soffits and wide timber fascias with half-round cast-iron guttering discharging to circular section downpipes on the front elevation and a mix of cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods to the rear.

The north-west elevation is blank and rendered in white painted rough-cast. The north-east elevation to the rear is set within a closed courtyard and rises to three storeys high. A doorway from the basement leads to the tarmac and grassed rear yard. The fenestration is irregular, with a mix of timber sliding sash and timber casement windows in green paint. There are two small roof dormers centred on the elevation. A small window on the first floor is centred on the elevation, while the ground and first floor bays to the right have tripartite windows. Linear window bays appear at basement level.

The south-east elevation is white painted rough-cast render. The main house has two small timber casement windows at attic level, and the projecting bay to the right side has two large multi-pane casement windows with glazing bars, one at ground floor and one at first floor level. A small timber casement window at basement level is situated to the left of the main gable end elevation, where the ground gently slopes towards the north-east.

A range of stone outbuildings surrounds the rear garden, arranged around a large courtyard accessed from the south via a corrugated metal gate. Outbuildings 1 and 2 to the north-west (positioned parallel with the main house) have whitewashed stone walling with brick vaulted ceilings internally. Outbuilding 3 to the south-west (parallel to the main house) has whitewashed rendered stone walling with a slate roof and three door openings—two to the left are disused with vertically sheeted painted timber farm doors, while the right side opening contains a timber door frame with the right side missing. The interior walls are lime rendered with a partially exposed ceiling showing lath, plaster, and exposed ceiling joists.

Outbuilding 4 is positioned perpendicular and to the south-east of the main house, with whitewashed render walling and a slated pitched roof topped by a rendered chimney stack overgrown with greenery. The right side opening is concealed with corrugated metal sheeting. A passageway on the left side leads through to the rear garden of the main house, with a window opening to the right of the passage concealed by nailed timber strips. The north-west wall of outbuilding 4 has a timber casement window on either side of the passageway opening. The north-east wall abuts outbuilding 5, and the south-west wall abuts outbuilding 3.

Outbuilding 5 at the north-east end of the courtyard is six bays wide, consisting of window and two square-headed door openings to the left side and a segmental arch-headed opening to the right side with a pair of vertically sheeted timber farm doors with metal ironmongery. A small dormer is aligned above a square-headed door opening, almost centred on the elevation. The walling is rough-cast render with white painted finish and brick detail to the eaves. It has a pitched slated roof with back clay ridge tiles and a rendered chimney stack.