Moygannon Gate Lodge, 56 Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RU

Moygannon Gate Lodge is a much altered and extended one and a half storey lodge located at the gates of Moygannon House on Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint. Although it retains some original character, most of its original openings have been infilled and the building has been substantially altered and extended, resulting in low architectural interest.

The lodge is constructed with cement-dashed and painted walls with a smooth basecourse and stepped quoins. It comprises a single original bay with a much deeper two-bay extension to its right end. The pitched natural slate roof is aligned north-east to south-west. The left bay features a gabled roof aligned north-west to south-east with fretted timber bargeboard to the front gable and plain bargeboard to the rear. The right bay of the extension has a higher ridge, with its front pitch continuing from the original front pitch. The roof incorporates modern vents and skylights to front and rear pitches, and a dashed modern chimney sits on the front pitch between the house and extension. Plain eaves boards carry modern ogee rainwater goods.

The front elevation faces south-east. The original bay features a 2/2 sash window to the left and a modern part-glazed four-panelled door to the right serving as the main entrance, set beneath an open timber porch with pitched natural slate roof on modern timber brackets and fretted bargeboard. The left bay of the extension is advanced from the original house and contains a canted bay window to the centre with a fixed 2/2 window to the front and 1/1 sashes to each cheek, with dashed and painted apron and small leaded roof tied into the main roof eaves. The right bay is stepped back slightly and has two 2/2 sashes. The north-east gable of the extension has decorative timber bargeboards and a pair of 3x5 paned glazed timber doors at ground floor centre, with narrow 1/1 sashes to left and right, and a single similar door in the attic serving a modern wrought metal balcony.

The rear north-west elevation of the extension has a modern timber-framed and glazed conservatory on its left bay with a dashed plinth and pair of glazed doors on its end gable. The right bay has a wide 2/2 sash. The rear wall of the original lodge has a small gabled porch with fretted timber bargeboard and blank dashed walls, with single 1/1 sashes to left and right. The left south-west elevation is dashed and blank. All windows and doors are modern timber to traditional styles.

Historical records indicate the lodge was probably built around 1810, contemporary with Moygannon Cottage (now Moygannon House). The 1834 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows it alongside the main house and farmyard, and the 1835 First Valuation book notes the main house as having been erected by Mr Moore of Arno's Vale twenty-five years previously. The main driveway of Moygannon originally ran up the side of the rear elevation of this house but was relocated when the property changed to separate ownership. Early Historical Monuments and Buildings Branch survey photographs show the original lodge to have been a bay wide and two bays deep with pitched natural slate roof and red brick chimney between the bays. The original front north-west elevation was dashed with smooth base and stepped quoins, fretted bargeboard with turned timber finial, and central porch flanked by 2/2 sash windows, all now substantially altered. The house is accessed by a driveway from the east with a small garden, and foundations have been dug to the immediate right of the extension for a granny flat.