Lodge at Greenvale, Drum Road, Cookstown, Co Tyrone, BT80 8QS

Lodge at Greenvale, Drum Road, Cookstown, Co Tyrone

This is a detached single-storey former gate lodge to Greenvale House, built around 1840, possibly to designs by William Farrell. The building is now used as a private dwelling.

The lodge is a hipped and rendered structure with stone detailing. Both the main roof and the roof of the single-storey returns to the rear are hipped and slated. The porch has a half-conical slated roof. Wide overhanging eaves run throughout the house. A large moulded double chimney rises from the centre of the main roof, with ridges formed in plain ridge tiles. All rainwater goods are cast iron.

The front north-eastern elevation faces onto the entrance to Greenvale House and is symmetrical. It features a central projecting semi-circular portico supported on two rounded Tuscan columns with moulded caps. Rectangular pilasters flank the opening with projecting moulded caps, supporting a plain rendered semi-circular frieze. The inside of the porch is semi-circular and recessed to reflect the portico. A square-headed door with replacement timber panelled door sits within. Square-headed windows on either side of the entrance bay have cut-stone surrounds and sills, projecting cut-stone hoods, and 1/1 painted timber sliding sash windows.

The south-eastern side elevation fronts onto Drum Road and comprises two sections: the main hipped house to the right and the hipped returns to the left. The original returns project slightly forward of the front block, a line continued by the modern return. Windows throughout have cut-stone surrounds and sills, projecting cut-stone hoods, and 1/1 painted timber sliding sash windows.

The north-western side elevation has three sections: the main hipped house to the left, the hipped return to the centre, and the modern return to the right. The original returns again project slightly forward of the front block. Windows have cut-stone surrounds and sills, and 1/1 painted timber sliding sash windows. Metal roller shutters with projecting metal boxes are present. A square-headed door to the L-shaped return has matching stone dressings. The remainder of this elevation and the south-western rear are obscured by a timber picket fence, with no further visible openings to the rear.

The lodge is set back slightly from Drum Road on the corner of the main driveway into Greenvale House. It is surrounded by a low rendered wall with cast-iron railings to the north-east and a high rendered wall to the south-east, with simple rendered square pillars topped by painted pyramidal stone caps. The vehicle entrance gate is to the north-west. A gravel parking area lies to the north. The house occupies a position at the south-western side of the town centre, at the beginning of the mainly suburban Drum Road.