Leitrim Lodge, 121 Leitrim Rd, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5XS

Leitrim Lodge is a complex of four interconnected structures on the west side of Leitrim Road, comprising a vernacular farmhouse, a later hunting lodge, outbuildings, and dog kennels, with a significant level change between the two main dwellings.

The vernacular farmhouse forms the northern component. It is single storey with three bays and has a pitched natural slate roof aligned north-south. A painted cement rendered chimney sits between the left and central bays, with modern painted timber eaves supporting semicircular plastic rainwater goods. The front elevation faces east and is cement dashed and painted with a smooth rendered base course. The central bay projects a large porch return to the right, pitched with a slightly lower ridge than the main block and finished with a terracotta finial to its gable end. The porch walls match the façade, with a modern painted timber door on its left cheek and a modern top hung window with transom and thin concrete cill on its gable, above which sits a small fixed oculus. The porch's right cheek is blank. To the immediate left of the porch and in each remaining bay are similar modern top hung windows. The right gable forms a party wall with the outbuildings and the left gable forms a party wall with the hunting lodge. The rear (west) elevation is pebble dashed with a smooth cement rendered base course and contains a single modern top hung window to the central bay.

The hunting lodge forms the southern component and is more architecturally elaborate. Its left bay has a pitched natural slate roof. The central bay has a natural slate roof aligned west-east and canted to the east gable, with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. A cement rendered and coped chimney sits between the left and central bays. Both roofs display decorated rafter tails and the south (left) gable features a fretted painted timber bargeboard with quatrefoil repeat. Aluminium rainwater goods run throughout. The narrow right bay, containing the hallway, is also aligned west-east with a low hipped roof and knob finial on its east gable.

The front elevation of the lodge is painted lined render with a projecting base course. The front door is contained within the right bay, painted timber with a Gothic head set within a Gothic headed opening with stop-end chamfered reveal. The central bay is filled by a large canted bay window, each of its three cants containing a large 1/1 sliding sash window with horns, chamfered stop-end reveals, and painted granite cills. The left bay has a similar but smaller window. The left gable has a single sash window detailed as the others. The rear elevation divides into two distinct parts: the right bay is blank, whilst the left advances as a gable with a plain A-frame bargeboard and a single window below without chamfered reveal. Advancing at the left is a low gabled return with a roof continuing from the porch, detailed as the main block with a blank end gable (A-framed bargeboard) and cement-rendered chimney on the west gable. Its right cheek has two small modern top hung windows in older openings. Its left elevation contains a flush four-panelled door to the left, a modern paired casement window to the centre, and a lean-to shed to the right. The shed has a monopitched natural slate roof, rendered walls, a modern door on its left cheek, and a rectangular top-hung window on its north-facing wall. At the left end of this elevation, at the join with the farmhouse, is a narrow gable with A-framed bargeboard and single fixed window below.

The outbuildings consist of a single bay abutting the north gable of the farmhouse and a two-bay range advancing east therefrom, formerly stables, enclosing the north end of the front yard. The single-storey block has a pitched natural slate roof and whitewashed dashed walls with a pair of sheeted doors filling the coach arch at left. The two-bay range has its left bay at 1½ storeys high with a pitched artificial slate roof, whilst the right bay is single storey with a natural slate roof. Walls are dashed and painted. The left bay has sheeted doors to left and right and a granite stair to the centre serving a sheeted first floor door. The right bay has two sheeted half doors. The east gable, facing the road, has a small gable window. A later lean-to shed abuts the left bay of the rear (north) elevation. The higher bay at right has a four-paned fixed metal window at ground floor. The west-facing elevation is blank except for a single flat-iron gate (with tin sheet over) leading inside at right.

Dog kennels are located to the west of the outbuildings at the north-west side of the complex.

The front of the complex is enclosed to the road by a lined cement-rendered wall with embattled roughly dressed granite coping. In front of the farmhouse is a small concrete floored yard, and to the front, left, and rear of the lodge is a small garden. A small domestic yard lies to the rear of the farmhouse.