Gate Lodge and Gatescreen, Ballyward Lodge, 16 Ballyward Road, Ballyward, Banbridge, Co Down, BT31 9PS

A single-storey two-bay Gothic style gate lodge built c.1825 and earlier gates erected c. 1810, located at the entrance to Ballyward Lodge (HB17/10/007A) in the townland of Ballyward, west of Castlewellan. Rectangular on plan gate lodge with canted entrance porch and early twentieth-century rear extensions. Hipped natural slate roof with angled ridge and hip tiles; single rendered chimneystack to party wall between bays; cast iron rainwater goods on projected eaves. Ruled and lined rendered walling. Windows are pointed-arched timber diamond lattice with painted masonry cills; those to main bays have timber transom and mullion with interlocking glazing bars to head. Semi-circular headed entrance door with plain fanlight over a replacement panelled timber door (top panels glazed); panelled frame and brass knob; stone threshhold. Symmetrical front elevation facing south-east; door located centrally to canted entrance porch, diminished window to each cheek. Window to either side. End elevations are blank. Rear elevation is abutted by two lean-to extensions with corrugated metal roofs and rendered walling; 2/2 sash window to left of centre. Right extension lit by a 2/2 window to rear; left extension lit by a casement to left cheek and door to right cheek. The lodge is located directly within the gates, at right on entry. Convex alcoved rendered entrance walls with flat masonry coping, terminating with oval finials to either side. Ashlar stone piers are linked to the entrance walls by a cast iron railing over a moulded stone plinth wall. Piers have a plinth, and frieze carved with oval classical motif; moulded cornice and flat cap over. A pair of cast-iron gates with spear-headed finials lead to the tree-lined entrance avenue to Ballyward Lodge. Wheel guards to bottom of piers. Setting Roadside setting in the rural settlement of Ballyward, on the main Castlewellan to Banbridge Road. Demesne beyond screened by mature plantation. Roof: Slate Walling: Rendered Windows: Timber lattice RWG: Cast iron