South gate lodge to Delamont House, 90 Killyleagh Road, Mullagh, Killyleagh, Co Down, BT30 9NB

Small gate lodge (to Delamont House) of c.1840s with steeply pitched gabled porch, rubble front façade and large, recently added, return. The property is set on the E side of the Killyleagh Road, c.3 miles SW of the town of Killyleagh itself. The front façade faces roughly W and is symmetrical. To the centre is a projecting porch with steeply pitched gable. The porch contains a timber sheeted door with stone ‘hood’ on brackets above. To the gable there is an narrow ‘arrow loop’ slit recess in dressed sandstone. The gable rests on [?]sandstone corbels and has a moulded verge. To either side of the porch is a single sash window with horizontal and vertical glazing bars arranged to give vertical margin panes. The N gable is rendered and has a small attic window with six pane frame. This gable also has corbelled ‘ends’. The S gable is largely identical to that to the N. The S gable is taller that that to the N as the ground level drops to the SE side of the building. To the rear there is a central single storey return with basement. To the S there is a high level sash window with vertical margin panes. At basement (ground) level there is a low timber sheeted door. To the gable there is a sash window at high ground floor level and another to attic level. The latter window is of the more conventional ‘2/2’ type. To the N there is a window (as S) and a partly glazed door (with margin panes to glazing. A short section of rubble wall extends from the N face of the return. Either side of the return (to main rear façade) is a single window, as front. The return and rear façade are rendered. The entire roof is covered in natural slate. Rendered parapets to N and S gables. Three Velux windows to rear / return. Metal rw goods. Low curving rubble wall to front with gate screen to N. The gate screen has plain square pillars with pyramidal caps. The S pillar has been partly rebuilt (with cement facing) in recent years. The iron gates has decorative cast iron ‘spear heads’ but are overall relatively plain. Higher rubble wall to N of gate screen.