Gate Lodge at Glebe House, Fingerpost Road, Kilskeery, Trillick, Omagh, Co Tyrone BT78 3RQ

A detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge built around 1850, located on the south side of Fingerpost Road at Kilskeery, standing to the west of the entrance to Glebe House.

The building is rectangular in plan with a hipped roof of natural slate and blue-black clay ridge tiles. The eaves are corbelled in brick, topped by a smooth rendered corbelled chimney. The walls are roughcast rendered over rubble construction. Windows are timber-framed 3/3 sliding sash with painted masonry sills. The principal elevation faces south and comprises a central replacement metal casement window flanked to the left by a single window and to the right by a replacement square-headed timber-framed glazed entrance door. The west and north elevations are largely overgrown. The east elevation is mostly overgrown with a single window to the centre. The building is bounded to the east by roughcast walling attached at the south-east corner, with access through a pair of square pillars with concrete coping. It is bounded to the north by hedging. The roof is of natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The building has been compromised by replacement of windows and doors, though its original character remains discernible. The lodge appears modest and representative of a relatively common type, of which better examples exist.

The building first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1852, captioned "Gate Lodge". It underwent some changes in plan in subsequent additions. The Townland Valuation records for the main house show a dwelling, offices and land occupied by the Reverend J. G. Porter and valued at £29.17s, though no separate gate lodge is recorded at that stage. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs note that Glebe House, situated in Kilskeery Glebe, was the residence of the Reverend Thomas Porter, rector of the parish, and was built in 1774. The Reverend J. G. Porter is recorded as having given £900 for purchasing a glebe house for the parish. The Reverend John Grey Porter of Kilskeery was proprietor of 7 townlands and a magistrate. Griffith's Valuation does not list the gate lodge separately, with a valuation of £37 for the whole property. Valuation Revisions record the glebe house, offices and land occupied by the Reverend W. Fleming, valued at £36, and separately a house (lodge) valued at £1. The gate lodge was built by the prosperous and long-lived incumbent John Grey Porter of Belle Isle, County Fermanagh. Two lodges were built at Belle Isle at around the same time as this gate lodge, circa 1850.