East Gate Lodge, Lissue, 29 Ballinderry Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28 2SL

East Gate Lodge

A single storey three-bay stuccoed building with hipped roof, laid out on an L-shaped plan, with a small walled yard to the rear. The main entrance faces south-east.

The south-east elevation is symmetrical, with a central entrance flanked by one window on each side. The hipped roof is covered in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses, with dark toned ridge tiles. The eaves overhang considerably, supported by paired projecting shaped brackets with a painted flat soffit. A central chimney of smooth rendered material with a moulded cornice rises through the roof, topped with two modern red pots and a plastic gutter.

The walling is stuccoed render, painted, with a projecting plinth, projecting frieze, and corner pilasters at the extremities, each with a moulded cap. The central door and flanking windows are set within projecting segmental arched mouldings, all resting on the plinth. The original door consists of segmental-arched timber panelled leaves in two parts, set in a segmental-arched recess with an original sandstone doorstep. The windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, now boarded up, each set in a segmental-arched opening with plain reveals. Each window has a projecting cill supported on a pair of moulded corbels with a raised and fielded panel below.

The south-west elevation uses the same roof, guttering, and walling materials as the entrance front. It is symmetrical with two bays, one window to each side of a central pilaster. The walling to the right of the central pilaster is patchy with cracked paintwork, while to the left it is smooth rendered, lined and blocked. One square section plastic downpipe is positioned at the right-hand end.

The rear elevation comprises the rear wall of the main front block on the left, with a rear return projecting to the right. To the left of this return sits a yard wall. The roofing, guttering, and walling materials are as on the entrance front, except that only the corner pilaster has a plinth and the eaves soffit is finished with tongued and grooved sheeting. One square section plastic downpipe is present. The walling is lined and blocked to the end of the rear return and on the south-west face of the yard wall. The rear face of the yard wall is smooth rendered and contains a rectangular doorway, later closed with concrete blockwork.

The north-east elevation forms the end of the original block, one bay wide, with a blind yard wall set back slightly to the right. The original block uses the same roofing, guttering, and walling treatments as the entrance front, except the eaves soffit is tongued and grooved sheeted. One window is centrally placed between corner pilasters. The blind wall to the right is plain smooth cement render, painted, with an overhanging concrete coping.

The building stands within the grounds of Lissue House just inside the main entrance gateway, facing onto the main driveway but set back slightly from it. It sits at an angle to the main road, with its north-west corner sitting close to the boundary. Grassed areas flank it to each side and rear, with a tarmac pathway along the south side.

The main entrance gateway comprises modern smooth cement rendered piers with modern galvanised steel gates and railings, set back from the main road with a tarmac area in front leading into the tarmac drive. The boundary to the north is formed by old iron railings of plain design, now damaged, with a hedge continued by barbed wire fencing. To the west stands a modern house beyond barbed wire fencing. The driveway is bounded on the east side by mature hedge and trees.