Kilmore Lodge, 62 Kirlish Road, Bullock Park Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4PZ

Kilmore Lodge is a substantial attached four-bay two-storey shooting lodge built around 1840, located to the west of Bullock Park Road near Drumquin, County Tyrone. The building survives in largely original condition and represents an unusually large and well-detailed example of an extensive country residence of its period.

The main house is rectangular on plan with a full-height canted bay to the east, abutted at ground floor by a single-storey gabled porch. A single-storey lean-to extension extends to the north, a two-storey hipped return to the west, and a single-storey lean-to link extension at the south-west supported on columns. A lower two-storey attached outbuilding stands to the south-west providing accommodation at first floor level. A dovecote links to the stable block at the west.

The roof is pitched natural slate with stone ridge tiles, raised sandstone verges with kneelers surmounted by stone pyramid finials. A square ashlar sandstone chimney with nine flues and clay pots rises from the main building, with roughcast chimneys on the outbuildings. The walls are roughcast over a smooth plinth. Windows throughout are square-headed timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash windows in sandstone surrounds with sandstone sills, except where otherwise noted.

The principal elevation faces east. The first and second bays each contain a single window at first floor and lower ground floor, with 1/1 sliding sash windows at ground floor. The third bay is canted, containing a single window at first floor and a small window to the right cheek at lower ground floor. At ground floor this bay features a square-headed four-panelled timber entrance door with glazed top panels, a transom light surmounted by a triangular pediment and flanked by columns. This is abutted by a timber-framed glazed porch accessed by three sandstone steps with a polypropylene roof and crested ridge tiles. The plinth here is smooth rendered. The fourth bay contains a single window at first floor and a 1/1 sliding sash window at ground floor.

The south gable contains a single metal casement window at first floor and a timber-framed twelve-pane window at ground floor, both with concrete surrounds. This elevation is abutted at its left by the attached outbuilding. The west elevation is abutted at its centre by a stairwell return containing a single square-headed 1/1 sliding sash window at lower ground floor and a large round-arched headed window at ground floor. The exposed section to the left contains a single 2/2 sliding sash window at lower ground floor and a 1/1 sliding sash window at first floor. The exposed section to the right is abutted at first floor by the lean-to link extension, which contains a single window supported on four columns at lower ground floor. The north elevation is abutted by the lean-to extension containing a large window, with the exposed section at first floor blank.

The attached six-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west has its south elevation divided into bays: the first bay contains a segmental-headed carriage-arch with double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors; bays two to four each contain single windows to each floor with concrete surrounds at ground level; the fifth bay contains a single window at ground floor; the sixth bay contains a 1/1 sliding sash window and a metal casement window at ground floor. The west elevation is abutted by a sandstone dovecote consisting of an opening with a segmental-headed ashlar arch flanked by substantial stone piers, surmounted by an octagonal tower with square-headed openings to the cardinal points and topped by a stone dome. The north elevation contains four segmental-headed carriage-arches with double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors, with the rightmost arch surmounted by a single window. The east elevation is abutted by the main house.

A further five-bay two-storey attached rubble stone stable block stands to the west. Its east elevation is abutted at the left by the outbuilding, with each exposed bay containing a vertically-sheeted timber half-door and casement window at lower ground floor and a single window at ground floor. An enclosed farmyard lies to the west, bounded by rubble walling with access through wrought-iron gates to north and south, and containing a rubble stone outbuilding to the west.

The property is set within extensive grounds in mature forest, bounded to the road at east by hedging and trees. Access is from the south-east through square rendered piers supporting cast-iron gates, with a secondary access to the north-east now blocked.

The building first appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey Map of 1854, captioned "Kilmore Lodge." Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records the "house and offices," valued at £15, as occupied by Oliver White, Esquire, and leased from Henry Echlin, Esquire. A contemporary marginal note observes: "...if this house and offices were situated in an ordinary situation surrounded with good land it could not be under £25, but on the top of a mountain as it is, even £15 seems high...." The Valuation Revisions from 1860 to 1915 record several changes of ownership until the house came into the fee simple ownership of Frances Ellis in 1910.