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

White Water Lodge is a two-storey dwelling of T-plan form, closely associated with the finely detailed White Water gate and the demesne of Mourne Park. The building dates to the mid-19th century, first appearing on the 1859 Ordnance Survey map alongside the gate screen, although a building is shown in this location on the 1834 map.

The lodge is approached by a rendered masonry causeway, with 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 stem of the T-plan faces west towards the driveway and forms the principal elevation. Ground level to the front and right elevation has been raised.

The roof is of natural slate, hipped to all gables, with the exception of the east pitch and part of the west pitch of the east section, which have been replaced with artificial slates. Clay ridge tiles are present. 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.

The walls are generally finished in 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. Half-round plastic gutters and cast iron down pipes are fitted.

All windows are 4/4 timber sliding sashes with finely dressed cills. Those openings in cement-rendered walls have stopped chamfered arrises to their heads and jambs. The principal front elevation features at ground floor a pair of 4/4 painted timber sliding sash windows accessed by an archway through the causeway to reach the first floor entrance door. At first floor is a canted oriel window containing 2/2 horizontally-divided sliding sash windows, with a canted natural slate roof.

To the left side at first floor, part of the entrance causeway (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 later extension has a monopitch natural slate roof falling from the main roof. As this work was not tied into the existing building, settlement has taken place with some serious cracks evident. The extension contains the main entrance, approached by two steps (one concrete, one 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 gives access to a small garden at the front of the building; the second forms a porch to the ground floor entrance. To ground floor left, on the gable of the top left section of the T, is a 3/3 sash window. 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.

At the rear (east elevation), a central ground floor door is the only feature, finished as a modern flush door with glazed panel. At first floor left are two heavy cast iron brackets which formerly formed a platform to a doorway; only the cill remains in evidence, 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, formerly a door of which the granite cill remains. Off-centre at first floor is a 2/2 window with horizontal glazing divisions and moulded concrete cill. To the right, in the advanced gable of the right top part of the T, is a 3/3 sash window at ground floor and a 2/2 horizontally-divided sliding sash window (with moulded concrete cill) to first floor.

The building has undergone significant alterations to both plan form and interior and exterior detailing. There is evidence the lodge may originally have consisted of two separate dwellings, one to each floor.