Main Lodge, Baronscourt, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4EZ

The Main Lodge at Baronscourt is the gate lodge to the demesne, situated at the northernmost entrance some distance from the public road. Built around 1835, it is a single-storey dwelling designed in the picturesque Tudorbethan style, derived from a pattern book design. The lodge is attributed to P F Robinson, as an adaptation of Design No. 4 from his publication "Designs for Lodges & Park Entrances" (1833).

The building is L-shaped on plan, aligned east-west with extensions to the west and a flat-roofed extension to the rear re-entrant angle. The roof is pitched fibre cement slate with exposed rafter tails, terracotta ridge tiles, and a triple lozenge stack (rebuilt) on an original brick plinth. Timber bargeboards project from the gables. Rainwater goods are uPVC. The walling is roughcast rendered over a smooth rendered plinth. Windows are bi-partite side-hung uPVC casements set in recessed smooth rendered reveals with slightly projecting painted masonry sills.

The principal elevation faces north and consists of a full-height gabled porch with an original canted bay to the left and an extension to the right. The porch is brick construction with a timber-sheeted door, bronze knob, and stone step, surmounted by a small square window with a label mould. The canted bay has windows to each cheek. The extension is similarly detailed with a gabled right end and matching square window with label mould. The left gable has a window to each floor, formed in painted brick with label moulds. A gate screen (HB10/04/001L) abuts the left gable. The rear elevation is abutted by a return to the right, with a projecting bay window to the gable and a window to the right cheek; the left cheek and remainder of the elevation are obscured by a flat-roofed extension, while the right gable (extension) is blank.

Originally, the building was faced with rustic rubble stone with brick dressings. When extended around 1970, the stone was rendered over and the decorative bargeboards were lost, which has obscured the original proportions and diminished the character of the structure. The interior has been modernised.

The lodge is set some distance from the public road, accessed by a tarmac drive through mature woodland. There is an expansive lawn to the front (north) and a further lawn to the rear. The gate screen is located to the east, beyond which a disused secondary estate road leads through estate plantation towards Lough Catherine. The mansion at Baronscourt is located some distance to the south.

A gate lodge is first recorded on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map as a rectangular building with a projection to the south, and is recorded simply as "Lodge" on the 1907 map. Historical valuations from the Townland Valuation (1828–40) record the "House, offices, gate house etc" at £150, while Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) values the "Castle, offices, steward and game-keeper's houses and gate lodges" at £220. By the second revision in 1895 and in subsequent revisions, the gate lodge is separately listed. It was leased by Barbara Evans from the Duke of Abercorn and valued at £4. The lodge is likely to have been started soon after the completion of Rock Cottage (HB 10/04/001H).

The lodge forms part of an extensive group of listed estate-related structures within the historic demesne (HB10/04/001A–R), and its setting remains unspoiled. However, the attached gate screen is in poor repair.