1 Castle Lane, Glenarm Demesne, Glenarm, Ballymena, County Antrim, BT44 8BQ

1 Castle Lane, Glenarm

This is a picturesque two-storey gabled gamekeeper's lodge built in 1875 in basalt rubble with painted stone dressings. It stands on the far west of Glenarm Demesne, just east of Munie Road.

The front elevation facing east is symmetrical. At the centre of the ground floor is a partially glazed panelled front door, recessed within a small gabled porch with an overhanging slated roof decorated with pierced bargeboards. The doorway has painted stone in-out dressings and a keystone inscribed with the date 1875. The porch has narrow two-pane windows to both north and south faces with matching dressings. To either side of the porch on the main house are sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6) and similar painted stone dressings. The first floor has three comparable windows. The south gable contains one window to the ground floor and one to the first floor, both matching the front design, with a small centre pivot window at attic level. The north gable has a window to the ground floor right (6/3 panes) and a matching window to the first floor right, with an attic window as on the south gable.

The rear west elevation has a partly glazed door to the left of the ground floor, with a window to the right and two further windows on the first floor right. There are also two additional sash windows on the first floor right. Throughout the building, all window and door openings have a shallow stone relieving arch over them.

The entire façade is constructed in basalt rubble with painted stone quoins and dressings. The gabled roof is slated with an overhang and decorative pierced bargeboards to match the porch. Two central rendered chimneystacks are present. The building retains cast iron rainwater goods. An outside toilet stands to the north, and kennels to the south.

The house was built as a lodge for the gamekeeper of the Antrim estate. Prior to 1875, records from 1833 and 1859 indicate the gamekeeper occupied "The Cottage", a picturesque dwelling set on a rise approximately two miles to the south within the Great Deer Park, on the site of the present 1920s Lord Antrim's Cottage.

The building retains sufficient period character to merit listing.