Lodge at Magheramorne House, 57 Shore Road, Magheramorne, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3HW

This is a one-and-a-half storey gabled lodge in Gothic Revival style, built of black basalt rubble stone in rough courses with red sandstone dressings to windows and doors. Plain string courses and moulded gable copings provide decoration. The main entrance faces south-east.

The entrance elevation shows a two-storey gable to the left, with a lower wing of plain walling set back to the right, and a single-storey gabled porch positioned in the angle between them. The roofs are covered in Bangor Blue slates in regular courses with red terracotta ridge tiles. Cast iron guttering discharges from the right-hand wing onto the porch roof, while a circular cast iron downpipe with a moulded polygonal hopper stands between the porch and main gable.

The walls are constructed of black basalt rubble in rough courses, later reticulated pointing, with rusticated red sandstone quoins at the corners. Plain ashlar string courses and red sandstone weathering to the offset plinth, finished with moulded red sandstone copings to the gables. The main gables are shouldered at mid-slope with ball finials to their apexes. The porch gable lacks shoulders but features a carved foliated label stop to the left-hand coping and a foliated ball finial at the apex.

The ground floor of the main gable has a pair of windows below a single window in the first floor. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, originally 2 over 2 with horns to the first floor, but now 2 over 1 with horns to the ground floor, the lower glazing bar of the ground floor sashes having been removed later. Red sandstone surrounds are chamfered to head and cill, with stop-chamfered sides. Gothic relieving arches in rough-faced red sandstone surmount each window, with a plain red sandstone shield contained within the relieving arch panel at first-floor level. The rectangular timber door is new, of varnished hardwood, six-panel with modern brass handle and letterbox, set in a recessed red sandstone surround with stop-chamfered sides and coved inside corners to the chamfered head. A pink-tinted concrete doorstep provides access.

The wing to the right behind the porch has one chimney across the ridge. The basalt rubble walling with dressings, and the front part of the base, are in red sandstone ashlar; the stack above is rebuilt in rustic brick with string courses and topped with two chimney pots, one original and one modern.

The south-west elevation comprises the side of the main one-and-a-half storey block, with the roof between gable upstands on each side. An original iron rooflight of two panes is present. Cast iron guttering is set on a chamfered red sandstone eaves course, with a circular cast iron downpipe placed centrally between two windows. The windows are similar to those on the entrance front, retaining all glazing bars, and are topped with sandstone relieving arches.

The north-west elevation comprises the main two-storey rear gable of the main block, with the rear of the lower wing set back to the left and a low hipped-roofed block in the angle between them. The main gable is similar to that on the entrance front, with one window to the first floor. A doorway in the ground floor, to the left of a short rear return, contains a rectangular timber door with two translucent glazed panels and modern brass handle, set in a brick surround with white-painted brickwork. One window in the rear of the hipped block within the yard is a small rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns, with a projecting stone cill painted black. The rear return projecting to the right is slated as before, with cast iron gutter and downpipe, a smooth cement-rendered finish to the north wall painted white, and modern wooden doors and window. The enclosing wall of the remainder of the yard, facing into the yard, is rubble stonework with brick dressings to the yard doorway, all painted white. A cast iron gutter to the hipped block discharges via a large PVC downpipe within the yard. The yard floor is concrete. The exterior face of the yard wall is basalt rubble with later reticulated pointing and red sandstone copings. Later lean-to sheds of corrugated iron project to the south and west from the yard wall, one with a corrugated asbestos roof and one with an asphalt roof.

The north-east elevation comprises the gable of the wing projecting forward, with the side of the porch stepped back to the left and the side of the low hipped block stepped back to the right, the yard wall and entrance extending to the right-hand extremity. The main gable has one window in the ground floor, a sashed window as described previously, 2 over 2, with a plain sandstone shield in the apex above, surmounted by a small relieving arch. The porch to the left has one small window, a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns, with chamfered sandstone surrounds; cast iron guttering on a chamfered sandstone eaves course; and a cast iron downpipe in the corner to the right. The low hipped block has a similar window, with similar guttering on a timber fascia to oversailing eaves and a later flat cement-rendered soffit. The yard wall matches the north-west elevation, with a central doorway rising above the level of the coping. A rectangular flush timber yard-door with the upper panel no longer glazed is set in a chamfered sandstone surround with coved inner corners to the head.

The building stands near the main road, just inside the original main gateway to Magheramorne House, screened from the road by trees and shrubs. A tarmac area directly in front of the gate lodge leads off the tarmac driveway to the hotel, bordered by a rockery to one side and a grassy bank to the other. To the side and rear is a garden containing flower beds laid out with concrete paths. The setting is secluded and leafy.