Inch Lodge, 75 Belfast Road, Magheracranmoney, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 9AY

Inch Lodge is a large, sprawling two-storey house originally built around 1840 but greatly extended and remodelled in typical irregular Edwardian fashion around 1900. The property is situated at the end of a curving lane to the east of Belfast Road, approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Downpatrick.

The original orientation of the house is difficult to discern, but since the Edwardian alterations the main entrance has been located on the west elevation. The west façade is asymmetrical and complex in appearance. Roughly to the right of centre is the recessed panelled entrance door. To the left of the doorway the façade is set back, containing three ground floor sash windows with Georgian panes (all 3/6) and two first floor sash windows with vertical glazing bars (both 2/2). On the north-facing portion between the doorway and the set-back façade there is a small sash window with Georgian panes to each floor (both 6/6). To the far left the façade is set back further, with a modern glazed door and small sash window to the ground floor and a similar but larger window to the first floor. This section has a bevelled north edge. To the right of the main entrance the façade projects slightly and is in rubble with unsuitable raised pointing, contrasting with the rest of the west elevation and most of the building which is finished in painted render. This section has two windows with modern frames resembling Edwardian models to the ground floor and two similar but much shorter windows to the first floor. These windows were blocked up until around the 1960s and have been reopened with odd raised render surrounds.

The north elevation comprises an attached outbuilding to the left and the house to the right. The house façade has two double sash windows to the ground floor and one to the left of the first floor, plus a single sash window to the right, all with Georgian panes (6/6). To the right-hand side the façade is recessed and ends in a bevelled edge, with a small sash window to the ground floor (Georgian panes, 4/4) and a larger window (6/6) set at a higher intermediate level. The north façade of the house is rendered and painted. The left outbuilding is two-storey in a mixture of rubble and brick, featuring a large segmental arched carriage entrance, an upper level sash window, and a ground level timber-sheeted pedestrian door.

The short south façade of the house is relatively uncomplicated, consisting of two large five-sided flat-roofed bays with windows to the three central sides of each. The windows all have Edwardian style sash frames with Georgian panes to the smaller upper sash (both 8 pane and 6 pane). This façade is rendered and painted.

The east elevation is the most complex. To the left the façade repeats the right-hand portion of the west elevation, in rubble with raised pointing and two windows with modern frames to each floor and incongruous rendered surrounds. To the right this section is set back slightly and rendered. Halfway along the façade is a high rubble wall enclosing a yard. To the left of the wall is a modern ground floor door, with a PVC conservatory immediately to its right. The first floor has two sash windows with Georgian panes (that to the left 3/6, that to the right tripartite 3/6 to centre). Beyond the yard wall is another tripartite window to the first floor, with a similar looking casement window also to the first floor. Within the enclosed yard is a short south-facing portion of façade with a partly glazed door and sash window (6/6) to the ground floor and a pitched roof half-dormer to the upper floor with double sash windows (6/6, 6/6). To the east of this is a small single-storey shed which leans against the large two-storey outbuilding to the north. To the south side of the yard is a long single-storey outbuilding which leans against the high yard wall.

The roof of the house is mainly hipped with a large overhang and boxed-in eaves. It is entirely covered in natural slate and has four relatively tall rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

To the south-west of the house, to the north side of the drive, is a small pump house of around 1910 with a pyramidal slated roof with overhang and exposed rafter ends, roughcast façade and timber-sheeted doorway set under a small gable to the east. To the north is a small two-pane window. Within the pump house is a large hand-operated wheel pump.