Moore Lodge, 58 Belfast Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1QQ

Moore Lodge is a two-storey house in U-plan form, built around 1910, set within extensive mature grounds approached by a tree-lined serpentine gravel driveway from a gate lodge on Belfast Road. The principal elevation faces south.

The building comprises a double-piled left section with a gable return to the centre of the façade, and two rear returns aligned north-south, one at each end. Pitched roofs are covered with Rosemary tiles aligned west-east, finished with decorative terracotta finials, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and plain bargeboards. All chimneys are cement dashed and rendered with terracotta pots. Moulded cast-iron rainwater goods feature decorative hoppers. The east pitch of the left rear return has two cast-iron skylights.

Walls are cement pebble-dashed with an advanced cement rendered basecourse, a moulded string course between ground and first floor levels, and small plain decorative panels to the first floor of the façade.

The south elevation comprises three principal bays. The left bay features a full-height bowed window to ground floor with six casement French windows and transoms, served by bowed dressed granite steps. Above is a four-casement window at first floor. The central bay contains a pair of glazed French doors with transoms and matching sidelights, with two granite steps. The right bay advances forward as a gable and has a bowed window at ground floor with three casements and transoms at first floor, notably taller than the other first-floor windows. The narrow west cheek of this advancing gable is blank, while its east cheek is the end wall of the front pile, containing a four-casement French window at ground floor and a three-casement window at first floor.

At the fourth bay, the front elevation steps back to reveal the east end of the rear pile. Here, two granite steps serve a pair of two-panelled painted timber storm doors with decorative brass furniture; the bottom panels are bolection moulded and the top panels are glazed with yellow obscured glass. A two-casement window is set at first floor. A curving single-storey return originally linked this section to the right gable of the front pile.

The right gable of the rear pile contains two ground-floor windows, each with a pair of casements, and a smaller two-casement window at first-floor centre.

The north elevation is flanked by two-storey returns at each end. The left (east) return has four 1/1 sliding sash windows to each floor, flush with the east gable of the rear pile, with a 1/1 sash to the right of its first-floor gable and a circular timber window at attic level. Its ground floor is abutted by a flat-roof addition with a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to centre; its right face has a small window with decorative grille.

The rear elevation's exposed sections are interrupted by two small lean-to returns under shallow roofs at ground-floor centre, containing pantries. The exposed sections at each end have 1/1 sliding sash windows at both floors. The wide exposed middle section has a large four-paned stairwell window between ground and first floor, a tiny two-paned cupboard window below, and three 1/1 sliding sash windows to each floor. The right rear return is shorter than the left, with a part-glazed four-panelled door at ground floor and a 1/1 sash above at first floor. Its gable has two 1/1 sashes to each floor (the left pair with bars); the attic gable contains a circular timber window. The right face of this return features a part-glazed four-panelled door and two-casement windows at ground and first floors.

The front pile is topped by a wrought-iron cockerel weather vane. The west gables of both front and rear piles are flush with the rear return, each with a window of three casements to first floor and diamond detailing in render to the gable apex. A lean-to with mono-pitched roof abuts the front pile at ground floor, its west face containing a four-casement French window.

The rear pile gable has a four-casement French window at ground floor and a three-casement window at first floor.

A large mature front garden with lawns extends to the immediate south and west. To the north lies a domestic yard with an outbuilding to its north side and a garage to its left, both detailed to match the house. Two square-section piers with concrete pyramidal coping mark the yard entrance from the driveway. A small wrought-iron pedestrian gate on the north side of the garage opens to the garden. The outbuilding has a hipped roof with a domed cowl at its ridge, blank elevations to north, west and east, and a south elevation with tongue-and-groove sheeted doors and timber casement windows. The garage is similarly detailed with a pitched roof topped by a chimney and a timber conservatory abutting its south gable; its west elevation fronts the garden with four pairs of casement windows under a common transom, its east elevation has casement windows and a glazed timber door with a tongue-and-groove sheeted and glazed sliding garage door. A cast-iron water pump stands to the immediate west of the garage.

The gate lodge on Belfast Road is a much-altered one-and-a-half-storey, two-bay structure with an artificial slate roof aligned north-south, dashed walls, a gabled return to the left and a veranda under a cat-slide roof to the right. Its west-facing front elevation has fixed modern windows with top-hung transoms.