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 located on the west side of Downshire Road in Newry. Although originating in the earlier 19th century, the building's outward appearance is predominantly of late 19th century date, with a 20th century flat-roofed addition.

The main structure is rendered with line render to its road-facing façade. It features an artificial slate double-pile roof, steeply pitched and multi-gabled, with scalloped painted barge boards and lead dressings. A distinctive cluster of tall rendered attached polygonal chimneys in Tudor style rises from a valley in the roof, with similar single chimneys on stepped bases rising from the right gable and to the right of the middle cluster.

The principal front elevation displays two bays. The right bay projects forward and is gabled. The left bay contains a smaller gabled dormer rising from the wall head. At ground floor right, the main entrance comprises a modern painted tongued-and-grooved door with strap hinges, glazed sidelight and transom, set within a chamfered segmental headed opening with stopped hood mould. At ground floor left, occupying the angle between the front of the left bay and the left cheek of the right bay, is a canted single-storey bay extending forward of the right bay, with a canted slate roof. This bay contains a tripartite casement window (two lights with two panes each, one light with one pane) to the front and single two-pane casements to each cheek, all without cills. Above the door at first floor is a tripartite casement (two with two panes, one with one pane) with stopped drip mould. To the first floor left, above the canted bays, are conjoined pairs of two-pane casements. At the second floor right, within the gable, stands a decorative canted oriel window with a small one-pane casement to each face, featuring a moulded-render corbelled base and swept decorative render roof. The second floor left, in the smaller gable, contains a conjoined pair of two-pane casements, diminished in size and with stopped drip mould overhead.

The left elevation features two conjoined gabled bays, finished with barge boards and painted line render as the front elevation. The right bay contains a two-storey canted bay projection with hipped slate roof and rendered walls. A moulded string course divides the ground and first floors, with a moulded cornice above. At the centre are conjoined pairs of two-pane casements to both floors, while each cheek holds 1/1 sliding sashes at ground floor and single two-pane casements at first floor. The left bay presents a projecting single-storey canted bay in timber with overhanging hipped artificial slate roof. This bay features French windows to the front and fixed full-height windows to each cheek. Above are conjoined pairs of 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. The right bay is gabled with plain barge boards and projects forward slightly. The middle bay has a smaller gabled dormer with scalloped barge boards rising from the wall head. The remaining wall of the main block is painted line render. At ground floor right is a pair of 1/1 sliding sashes within a single opening. At first floor right stands a Y-traceried six-pane window set within a Gothic arched opening. At the centre of this floor are conjoined margin-paned casements, with a conjoined pair of two-pane casements to the left. The second floor gable at right contains a small 2/2 pane window. The middle dormer holds a conjoined pair of margin-paned casements, partly glazed with stained glass, with a small modern fixed window immediately to its right beneath the eaves.

A single-storey extension abuts the left and middle bays and the left cheek of the right bay, projecting forward of the right bay. It features a flat roof with an octagonal rendered chimney rising from the wall head at its middle. The walls are finished in line render. Its left cheek (as viewed from the north) is canted and projects forward of the right gable of the principal façade, with a moulded cornice and crenellated parapet containing 1/1 sliding sash windows to each cheek. The wall facing north has a conjoined pair of two-pane casements at its right.

A two-storey wing projects from the right side, aligned east-west and extending beyond the rear wall of the main block. It has a pitched natural slate roof. The gables at either end feature scalloped barge boards. Rising from the east gable is a tall rendered chimney as seen on the façade, set at 45 degrees to its base. The west gable bears a shorter slender terracotta stack with barley sugar shaft and crenellated head (uncertain whether chimney or ventilator). The east gable, facing the road, has a conjoined pair of 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.

Historical records indicate a building stood at this location on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map but not on the 1803 map, dating the structure to the earlier 19th century. The large-scale 1838 Valuation map shows the main block complete with a wing to the north-west, occupied at that date by John Corbitt. The 1858 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map identifies the property as 'Tudor Lodge'. The 1863 Valuation records note the wing as two storeys high but the main block as only one and three-quarter storeys high, indicating a later heightening, probably in the late 19th or early 20th century. The present chimneys and barge boards were likely added during this same period of enhancement.

This description is based on observations from adjoining properties, as the owner refused access to the grounds.