Site of former house off Nutgrove Road, Annadorn, near Seaforde, Downpatrick, Co Down

Site of a former gate lodge, on the north side of Nutgrove Road approximately 2 miles north-east of Seaforde, County Down. The lodge was a small single-storey dwelling dating to around 1840, built to serve Nut Grove House situated a short distance to the west.

According to a survey conducted in February 1978, the lodge was described as a single-storey cottage with a canted front end. The roof was hipped, slated, and gabled to the north end, with rendered chimneys. The walls were rendered and painted white, with twin corbelled eaves. The south front facing the road featured a sheeted entrance door and two light drop-hung sash windows without astragals on the right-hand angle. Some windows were present on the east flank wall. A decorative cast iron gate stood at the front. The building measured approximately 15 feet across the front and was already in poor condition and derelict at the time of survey.

The lodge does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, but is shown on the revised map of 1858. The property originally functioned as the gate lodge to Nut Grove House, with what is now Nutgrove Road forming the former private drive to the house. Nut Grove itself was originally a large single-storey dwelling, probably dating from the early 1700s and likely built by the Cosslet family, who are believed to have occupied the property since at least 1744. The original house stood alongside an adjacent corn mill. The early 18th-century house was demolished around the 1840s and replaced by a grander two-storey residence built by Andrew McCammon, who also constructed this gate lodge. In the late 19th or early 20th centuries, possibly with the advent of motoring, the drive to Nut Grove House became a public road, sweeping past the house itself. The lodge had become derelict by the mid-1970s and was subsequently demolished sometime after 1978. The site is now occupied by the incomplete shell of a modern two-storey house, work on which appears to have been suspended.