East Gate Lodge, St Joseph's Convent, Castlecaulfield Road, Donaghmore, Dungannon, BT70 3HF

Single-storey with basement Classical style gate lodge of c.1827, formerly serving Donaghmore House (now St Joseph’s Convent School), but now derelict. The building is set on the west side of Castlecaulfield Road, on the southern outskirts of Donaghmore, but prior to road realignment of the late 1800s, was originally located on the opposite side of the road from the drive it served. The front façade faces north-north-west, for ease of description this is referred to as north; orientations of all other facades are similarly ‘corrected’. The building is rectangular and is Classically detailed in a simple and austere manner.The walls are finished in ashlar stone and the roof (which was hipped) has collapsed, as has the once centrally located chimneystack. The front elevation is symmetrical and consists of a central flat-arched doorway with panelled door, flanked by squarish flat-arched window openings, which have lost their original frames, but retain their cut stone sills. Over the openings is is a largely undecorated entablature, which is supported by four rather squat three-quarter attached columns, with Ionic capitals; the colums to the outside square, the inner ones round. The east and west facades each have a single window opening, as front. Th rear elevation could not be seen due to thick vegetation, but it is believed that there is a doorway to the lower (basement) level of this facade. Extending to east and west of the lodge are quadrant walls with decoative (and possibly later) iron railings on a low cut stone wall, terminating in v-joint rusticated pillars with concave pyramidal caps. There are octagonal stone buffers next to the pillars.