Green Gale Lodge, Mourne Park, 200 Newry Road, Killkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4JZ

Green Gale Lodge is a one-and-three-quarter storey, three-bay picturesque late-Victorian gate lodge with associated outbuildings. It is situated at Mourne Park, on the entrance drive just behind the Green Gates. The main façade faces east onto the driveway.

The building is constructed of coarsely dressed granite blocks laid randomly, set on a projecting plinth with chamfered brick coping. All pointing is weather-struck cement. The walls are punctuated by finely dressed flush quoins. Stone lintels to all openings are in one piece with a stopped pole chamfer arris mould; brick reveals are similarly detailed.

The roof is of natural slate with intersecting pitches and red clay crested ridges, though part of the cresting is missing. The slating is embellished by two bands of three courses of fish-scaled slates. The eaves are overhanging with exposed decorated rafter tails over a moulded brick double corbel course. Verges project with decorative bargeboards, which differ in design on each gable. Three red brick decorative chimneys rise from the building: one on the party wall between the left and centre bays, a second on the right bay ridge, and a third on the rear end gable. Rainwater goods are cast iron, semicircular in profile (part missing), with matching downpipes.

The principal façade faces east and is three bays wide, with an advanced and gabled right-hand bay. The central bay is narrow and contains the front entrance. The door is four panelled with stop-end chamfered arrises, with a rectangular one-pane transom over. It is protected by a decorative painted timber open porch entered from the left side, built in the angle formed by the middle and right-hand bays. The porch roof is partly hipped, naturally slated, with bracketed eaves (without gutters) and rests on an advanced granite base course with chamfered brick coping. The entrance opening on the left cheek is flanked by one panel on each side; the front section to the east is four panels wide. Each panel is in two stages: the lower stage is open in the form of an arch springing from a decorative bracket on the side of each post, and the upper stage has a decorative pierced panel. The porch floor comprises a granite threshold and red quarry tile paving, with a painted sheeted timber ceiling.

All windows are painted timber 2/2 (vertically divided) sliding sashes unless otherwise stated, with flush granite cills featuring steeply sloping top faces and red brick dressings. On the ground floor to the left of the main façade is a single window. The right bay contains a canted single-storey bay with a flat roof bounded by a moulded granite coping, featuring a 2/2 sash window to the centre and 1/1 windows on each cheek. At first floor to the left is a gabled window, and to the centre, over the door, is a small 2/2 window. The right bay has a gabled window. The gabled first floor windows have semicircular brick arch heads with a one-piece dressed stone tympanum block. The bargeboards to the left-hand gable are plain, while those to the right gable are styled as a hammer beam truss.

The south elevation is two bays wide. The right bay is wider than the left and forms an advanced gable with bay, detailed as the right bay of the main elevation but with plain bargeboards. The left-hand bay has a 2/2 sash window on the ground floor and a similar gabled window to the first floor, with both first floor windows having semicircular brick heads as on the main façade.

The rear elevation consists of two bays, each in the form of a blank gable, with the right one advancing. The framed and sheeted back door is at the right end of the left-hand gable and has a segmental brick headed transom light. The wall to the left of the door is abutted by a single-storey return with a natural slate roof with crested clay ridges, plain bargeboards, and half-round rainwater goods. This return is constructed of coursed random rubble with finely-dressed and stepped quoins, built integral with the main block. Its end gable has a shuttered window with segmental brick head, stepped brick jambs, and granite cill. Its right cheek has a door at each end (with shallow brick heads) and a shuttered window to the centre, detailed as that on the gable. Its left cheek has a similar window just right of centre.

The north elevation is two bays wide, both gabled with hammer-beam style bargeboards, neither advanced beyond the other. There is one window to each bay on each floor, detailed as those to the main façade. The wall between the ground floor windows is abutted by a 2-metre high yard wall containing sheeted carriage gates hung on square ashlar granite piers.

To the rear is a large walled yard containing ruinous kennels to the north and a derelict outhouse to the east, detailed as the return to the main block. Against the inside face of the boundary wall to the main road is a range of carriage houses with an insitu concrete roof partly supported by pieces of cast-iron railway line. All these buildings are substantial and stone built.