White Water Lodge, 276 Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SD

White Water Lodge is a two-storey dwelling of T-shaped plan, located adjacent to the White Water gate. The ground level to the front and right elevation has been raised. The building may originally have comprised two separate dwellings, one occupying each floor. The stem of the T faces west towards the driveway and is treated as the main façade. The house is approached by a rendered masonry causeway, the driveway to Mourne Park having been embanked to bring it level with the approaches to the bridge carrying the main road over the White Water River.

The roof is of natural slate, hipped to all gables, though the natural slates on the east pitch and part of the west pitch of the east section have been replaced with artificial slates. Clay ridge tiles are fitted, and the eaves project and are boxed in. A large corbelled and rendered chimney stands at the junction of the top and stem of the T. Half-round plastic gutters and cast iron downpipes are installed. The walls are generally finished with smooth cement render, except for the east elevation which retains lime render over granite rubble, and the exposed ground floor faces of the T's stem which are unrendered ashlar granite. A projecting plinth course is present only to the front wall.

All windows are 4/4 timber sliding sashes with finely dressed cills. Where openings occur in cement-rendered walls, they feature stopped chamfered arrises to their heads and jambs. The ground floor façade of the principal elevation is accessed by an archway through the causeway to a first floor entrance door. This section contains a pair of 4/4 painted timber sliding sash windows at ground floor. At first floor stands a canted oriel window with 2/2 horizontally divided sliding sash windows, topped with a canted natural slate roof.

To the left side at first floor, part of the entrance causeway, which is constructed of cement-rendered brick, has been enclosed to form an entrance hall in the angle between the left top and tail sections of the T. This extension has a monopitch natural slate roof falling from the main roof. However, as this later work was not tied into the existing building, settlement has occurred and there are serious cracks evident. The extension now contains the main entrance to the house, accessed by two steps, one in concrete and the other in granite. The door has two glazed panes over two timber panels. On the north face, which is rendered, are two openings through the entrance causeway, both with deep stop-end chamfered jambs. The first provides access to a small garden at the front of the building, whilst the second forms a porch to the ground floor entrance.

On the gable of the top left section of the T is a 3/3 sash window at ground floor. Above the doorway is a paired 1/1 casement window. At first floor left, above the 3/3 window, is a 2/2 horizontally divided sliding sash window.

The rear, east elevation features only a central ground floor door as its principal element, a modern flush door with a glazed panel. At first floor left are two heavy cast iron brackets which formerly formed a platform to a doorway, now only the cill of which remains visible, the opening having been infilled.

On the south face facing the main road, at ground floor left is a 3/3 window with no cill, which was once a door and retains its granite cill below. Off-centre at first floor is a 2/2 window with horizontal glazing divisions and a moulded concrete cill. To the right, in the advanced gable of the right top part of the T, stands a 3/3 sash window at ground floor, and a 2/2 horizontally divided sliding sash window with moulded concrete cill to first floor.