Aughavilla Lodge, 121 Clonallon Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3QN

Aughavilla Lodge is an early 19th-century house of one and a half storeys arranged over three bays in a double-pile plan, situated in mature grounds on the east side of Clonallon Road. The building faces southeast and presents a symmetrical principal elevation.

The roof is pitched with modern overhanging timber eaves and artificial slate covering. Two broad modern cement-rendered chimneys run aligned parallel to the facade in the valley between the front and rear pitches. All bargeboards are plain. Moulded plastic rainwater goods are fitted throughout. The walls are cement-dashed and painted, with a smooth rendered and painted basecourse.

The central bay is narrower than the flanking bays and features a gabled central return to the front, detailed to match the main block. On each floor of the end gable are a pair of timber three-paned casement windows with margin panes and painted granite cills. The left and right cheeks of this return step out slightly at first floor level, with the right cheek remaining blank. The left cheek contains the Tudor Gothic front door within a flat-headed opening, accessed by a single granite step. The door has a beaded muntin and four panels, the top two of which curve to accommodate the Tudor Gothic head. It is furnished with timber spandrels, a decorative cast-iron knocker and a brass escutcheon. The left and right bays of the front elevation contain large 6/6 sliding sash windows with horns and painted granite cills at ground floor level, with matching recessed wall panels of much diminished height in the attic wall head.

The left (southwest) elevation is three gables wide. The right gable, belonging to the front pile of the house, is wider than the others and is thought to be later than the central gable of the rear pile. The walls match the main facade. The left gable is an abutting rear outbuilding and is not part of the house proper. The right gable of the front pile is blank at ground floor and has a pair of 2x6 timber casements in a common opening with a painted cill at attic level. Each of the remaining gables has a similar attic window. The central gable of the rear pile has three openings to ground floor: the left and right ones contain top-hung 3/9 timber casements mimicking sashes, whilst the middle opening has a nine-paned casement with a segmental spoke-headed fanlight. The left gable (the outbuilding) has a modern up and over metal garage door at ground floor.

The rear elevation of the rear pile is abutted to the right by the outbuilding and to the left corner by a rubble stone outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof. The remainder of the rear elevation was not surveyed.

The right (northeast) elevation comprises two gables. The walls are as the facade. The left gable, belonging to the front pile, features a late 19th-century single-storey canted bay window with an artificial slate roof and heavy moulded timber cornice supporting plastic rainwater goods. Its walls are smooth rendered and unpainted. The openings have stop-chamfered reveals. Each side cheek contains a narrow fixed 1/1 timber window with a plain transom over. The front cheek has a pair of French windows, detailed as the side cheeks with a two-paned transom. Two granite steps lead up from the garden, with a dwarf wall enclosing each side. Above at attic level is a pair of casements matching those to the left elevation. The right gable of the rear pile has a large modern fixed window with sidelights at ground floor and a pair of casements at attic level.

The entrance from Clonallon Road is marked by a pair of wrought-iron gates with plain bars over similar dog bars. All bars have scrolled finials, and the top rail ramps up to left and right. The gates are hung on rendered and coped masonry piers with concave walling to each side. A gravel driveway loops back on itself to the main house. The garden is maturely planted with trees and shrubs along the southwest boundary adjoining the road, whilst the lawn to the front of the house terraces down and probably once incorporated the adjacent field. The front elevation commands a spectacular view across Carlingford Lough towards the Carlingford mountains. To the northeast is a rose garden on a sloping site falling away from the house. To the northwest lies the domestic yard (not inspected) and beyond it a ruinous farmyard.