Lodge, 18 Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7NQ

A 4 bay long, single storey gate lodge, gabled, slated with nearby entrance gates, piers. The entrance elevation, overlooks the Springhill Avenue and has an easterly aspect, has 4 bays, end bays gabled each with 2 light 6 pane casements with horizontal hood mouldings. Entrance porch projects, gabled with 3 vertical panelled doors, 2 steps, blocking plinths. Between porch and S gable a single 8 pane casement with hood moulding. Walls finished in harling with bold quoins, all painted white. Barges and fascia decorative except on porch. Low plinth. Roof natural slates with lead roll ridges and hips. S side 2 no. 8 pane casements with hoods as before, walls as before, no fascia, rafter feet exposed, ½ round metal gutter, single downpipe. W side single gable at S end, windowless, wall finish and barges as before. 1 no. 3 light, 8 pane, casements, hood moulding, single sheeted back door with corrugated plastic canopy on brackets over, 2 light, 8 pane casement with hood moulding. Wall finish as before, no fascia, rafter feet exposed, ½ round metal gutter, roof hipped at N end. 2 red brick chimney stacks, diagonally placed on either side of main ridge and touching. To rear in angle of projecting bay a temporary lean-to structure. N side, 1, 2 light, 6 pane casements with hood. Wall finish as before. Some creepers cover walls. The lodge is sited on narrow strip of land between main road (Springhill Road) and avenue at the end entrance to avenue 2 low ashlar sandstone square piers, moulded plinth, faces panelled, large square chamfered capping stone. Iron gates, painted with restricted decoration. Low rubble stone walls bound the estate on each side of gate piers.