Plantation Lodge, 253 Seacoast Road, Bellarena, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 0JX is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 28 March 1975. House.
Plantation Lodge, 253 Seacoast Road, Bellarena, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 0JX
- WRENN ID
- hollow-soffit-crow
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Irish grid reference
- C 670 304
- Coordinates
- 55.11653, -6.94994
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Plantation Lodge is a former gate lodge, situated on the north and east side of Seacoast Road, originally serving the Bellarena Estate. Built between 1820 and 1839, likely during the occupancy of Conolly Gage, the lodge is a single-storey, three-bay building on its entrance facade. The front features a central doorway flanked by windows; each window is a 12-pane sliding sash with white-painted plaster reveals. The side walls extend for two bays, resulting in a plan shape that is not quite square. The building has hipped roofs finished with a short ridge and a central chimney.
The lodge has been extended to the rear by two bays and is now slightly narrower than the original structure. It is constructed of reused local bricks, which retain traces of their original mortar. The roofs are slated with Bangor blue slates and feature ridge and hip tiles. The entrance is accessed by three circular steps, and the building showcases a white-painted fascia board, black guttering, and downpipes. The doors and windows are painted white. The original design included an accentuated eaves overhang supported by timber posts, which remain in place. Subsequent alterations have simplified the building's appearance. The surrounding setting has been considerably changed over time.
Local climate
Plantation Lodge, 253 Seacoast Road, Bellarena, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 0JX sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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