Lodge, 179 Ballynahinch Road, Ballylintagh, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6BG

A symmetrical single-storey two-bay painted rubble stone gate lodge in the neoclassical style; possibly originally built c.1800 and rebuilt c. 1850 and located north of the Ballynahinch Road at the entrance to Ballylintagh Park. Rectangular on plan with extension to rear and L-shaped extension to north. Hipped natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and yellow brick chimneystack to centre. Plastic rainwater goods. Walling is painted rubble stone; painted roughcast render to extensions. Windows are paired segmental-headed timber (without glass) in painted brick surround with projecting masonry sills and surmounted by label mould. The principal elevation faces west and is symmetrically arranged with paired windows to either side of a timber-sheeted door in painted brick surround. The north elevation has a paired window to centre; abutted at left by L-shaped extension with corrugated metal roof sloping to rear, which abuts the rear extension to south; west elevation has two doorways. The east elevation is fully abutted by extension under corrugated metal sloping roof having three metal-framed windows. The south elevation has a paired window to centre. Setting: Set at a lower level from the road at the entrance to Ballylintagh Park, accessed via curved painted masonry entrance walls with rubble coping stones terminating in square piers having caps topped by oval ball finials. Inner gate piers are channelled on a chamfered plinth with pointed caps surmounted by cast-iron lion heads, supporting early decorative cast-iron gates. To right is a modern latch gate. The lodge is set back from the lane with painted masonry square piers and caps divided by three steel shafts; to centre are vestiges of modern latch gate; to left are early decorative wrought-iron gates. Roof: Hipped natural slate roof Walling: Rubble stone Windows 1/1 timber-framed (glass missing) RWG: Plastic