Lodge to Drumnascamph House, Cavan Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5EG

This is a single-story, two-bay gate lodge situated on the north side of the Cavan Road at the gates to Drumnascamph House. It dates from approximately 1859, although it may have been constructed slightly earlier, between 1840 and 1859. The lodge was first shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1859, with the main house appearing alongside it.

The lodge has a hipped natural slate roof with clay ridges and overhanging eaves, supported by paired timber brackets extending from the wall head. The walls are lime-rendered and whitewashed, with a black-painted basecourse. A single, whitewashed chimney is positioned on the ridge between the two bays. The front elevation, facing southeast, is adjoined on the left by a small porch with a flat roof and a scalloped parapet, matching the wall finish. Settlement cracks suggest this porch is a later addition. The left cheek of the porch is blank, while the front wall contains a narrow window opening with a dressed granite cill. The right cheek features the front door, which is sheeted. A rectangular window opening, containing modern timber top-hung windows and painted granite cills, is present in each bay of the front elevation. The left elevation is built up with earth to approximately one meter above floor level and retains a window opening similar to those on the front façade, but without timber. The rear elevation is almost entirely obscured by a lean-to extension, with a small remaining section displaying a narrow top-hung modern timber window. The lean-to has a corrugated metal roof (partially collapsed) and cement-rendered concrete block walls and is considered of no special interest. The right elevation of the lodge is blank.

In front of the lodge, on the road, is a gateway that breaks through the granite rubble boundary wall, built from granite rubble with a granite coping. The gateway is semicircular in plan, with the concave walls rendered and coped with granite. Square gateposts topped with pyramidal caps originally held gates, which are now absent. A lane continues northeast, with Drumnascamph House to the left and associated yards to the right. The house is likely late Victorian, replacing an earlier structure, and the yards are of minimal interest. The lodge originally served Drumnascamph House, though the connection between the two is now lost. According to historical records, the house was still under construction in 1861, and the gate lodge was unoccupied, suggesting both were erected in the late 1850s.