The Lodge, Seapark House, 109 Shore Road, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 8TZ

Detached three-bay single-storey Italianate gatelodge, built c.1865, to designs by Thomas Jackson, located to the west entrance of Seapark House (HB22/07/011A). Rectangular-on-plan; flat-roofed single-storey link block to extension (currently under construction 2009). Roof is hipped natural slate; blue/black clay ridge tiles; deep overhanging eaves with panelled soffit supported on scrolled modillion brackets; single rendered chimney with recessed panels and bracketed cornice; replacement clay pots. Rendered walls have horizontal banded rustication over moulded plinth; diamond-pointed rusticated quoins. Windows are replacement round-arched-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding-sash flanked by pilasters with dentilled impost surmounted by moulded archivolt with keyblock; moulded sills over panelled aprons. Principal elevation faces north; central bay contains replacement square-headed four panelled timber entrance door flanked by pilasters; abutted by portico supported by two Ionic columns each flanked to outer side by square Tuscan pier. Outer bays each contain single window. East elevation contains central pair of windows; central shared pilaster. South elevation is abutted by extension; exposed section is blank. West elevation contains central pair of windows; central shared pilaster. Set to the west entrance of Seapark estate; bound to Shore Road by roughly coursed walling and accessed through pair of original cast-iron gates supported on pair of square pillars with rubble crenellations. To north, estate boundary wall consists of smooth rendered plinth wall surmounted by cast-iron railing with pair of recent cast-iron gates supported on square pillars with banded rustication and concrete caping. Belfast Lough to East. Roof Natural slate Walling Smooth render with horizontal banded rustication Windows Round-arched-headed timber framed 2/2 sliding sash RWG Cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes