Tudor Lodge, Downshire Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1EE

Tudor Lodge is a two-and-a-half storey, two-bay multi-gabled Tudor Revival house with a two-storey wing at the rear, situated on the west side of Downshire Road in Newry. The description is based on observations from adjoining properties, as the owner refused access to the grounds.

The roof is steeply pitched with artificial slate and multiple gables, finished with scalloped painted barge boards and lead dressings. A distinctive cluster of tall rendered attached polygonal chimneys in Tudor style rises from the valleys between the gables. Individual similar chimneys on stepped bases rise from the right gable and to the right of the central cluster.

The road-facing façade is rendered in painted line render. The right bay is gabled and projects forward, while the left bay has a smaller gabled dormer rising from the wall head. The main entrance at ground floor right comprises a modern painted tongue-and-groove door with strap hinges, glazed sidelight and transom, set within a chamfered segmental-headed opening with stopped hood mould. At ground floor left, between the two bays, is a canted single-storey bay with a canted slate roof. This bay has tripartite casements (two with two panes, one with one pane) to the front and single two-pane casements to each cheek, all without cills.

Above the entrance door at first floor is a tripartite casement with two two-pane lights and one single-pane light, with stopped drip mould over. To the first floor left, above the canted bays, is a pair of conjoined two-pane casements. At second floor right, within the gable, is a decorative canted oriel with a small one-pane casement to each face, featuring a moulded-render corbelled base and swept decorative render roof. At second floor left, in the smaller gable, is a diminished pair of conjoined two-pane casements with stopped drip mould over.

The left elevation has two conjoined gabled bays with barge boards and walls finished as the front elevation. The right bay features a two-storey canted projection with hipped slate roof and rendered walls, incorporating a moulded string course between ground and first floor and a moulded cornice. Pairs of two-pane casements occupy the centre of this projection at both floors, with 1/1 sliding sashes to ground floor and single two-pane casements to first floor on each cheek. The left bay has a projecting single-storey canted bay in timber with overhanging hipped artificial slate roof at ground floor, furnished with French windows to the front and fixed full-height windows to each cheek. Above is a pair of conjoined two-pane casements with stopped drip mould. Each gable at second floor contains an identical smaller window, also with stopped drip mould.

The right elevation is three bays wide, with the right bay gabled and projecting slightly forward, and a smaller gabled dormer rising from the wall head of the middle bay, its barge boards finished with scallops. The main block wall is painted line render. At ground floor right is a pair of 1/1 sliding sashes within a single opening. At first floor right is a Y-traceried six-pane window set within a Gothic arched opening. At the centre of this floor is a pair of conjoined margin-paned casements, and to the left is a pair of conjoined two-pane casements. The second floor right gable contains a small 2/2 pane window. The middle dormer contains a pair of conjoined margin-paned casements, partly with stained glass, and immediately to its right under the eaves is a small modern fixed window.

A single-storey extension with flat roof abuts the right elevation, with an octagonal rendered chimney rising from the wall head at its middle. The walls are line render. The left cheek, as viewed from the north, is canted and projects forward of the right gable of the principal façade, featuring a moulded cornice and crenellated parapet with a 1/1 sliding sash window to each cheek. The north-facing wall has a pair of conjoined two-pane casements at the right. The right cheek was not accessible.

A two-storey wing at the right has a pitched natural slate roof aligned east-west, projecting beyond the rear wall line of the main block. Gables at either end are finished with scalloped barge boards. Rising from the east gable is a tall rendered chimney, as those on the façade, but set at 45 degrees to its base. On the west gable is a shorter slender terracotta stack with barley sugar shaft and crenellated head, its function as chimney or ventilator uncertain. The east gable, which faces the road, has a pair of conjoined two-pane casements with stopped drip mould at ground floor, and above are two conjoined 1/1 sashes with stopped drip mould. The north-facing wall is blank except for a tripartite casement at first floor right. The west gable and exposed section of the south wall were not accessible, and the rear elevation of the main block could not be observed.