Gate lodge at Tobar Mhuire, 16 Downpatrick Road, Crossgar, Co Down, BT30 9EQ

Single storey, hipped roof, gate lodge (to Tobar Mhuire House) of 1875, with rubble façade, brick dressings, vermiculated clay quoins and a gabled porch topped with eagle ‘finial’. The building is set at the W entrance to the Tobar Mhuire house estate, on the southern edge of Crossgar. The front façade roughly S and is symmetrical. To the centre is a projecting gabled porch. To the front gable of the porch is the main entrance, which consists of a panelled and glazed door set within a yellow brick dressed recess with moulded reveal (all the openings have similar dressings unless stated otherwise). Directly above the doorway is a recessed slate roundel panel with date ‘1875’ thereon. To the E and W faces of the porch is a narrow sash window. The porch has yellow clay vermiculated quoins, a granite base and steps to the doorway. The main portion of the house (excluding rear façade and return) has similar quoins and base. The roof is covered in a natural slate with]stone parapet to gable with clay urn ‘finials’ to either end and an eagle ‘finial’ to the apex. To either side of the porch (to main front façade) there is a sash window with vertical astragals. The W elevation consists of the W façade of the main portion of the lodge (to the right) and the W façade of a return. The return façade is blank, however, the (mono-pitched) return roof has been heightened slight and a slate clad portion of it now rises above the main rubble façade. The E façade repeats this arrangement, but the rubble façade to the right of the W façade of the main portion of the lodge, is not the façade of a return but merely a high wall enclosing the rear yard. The rear (N) elevation consists of the N wall of the yard, which has a central timber sheeted door with red brick dressings. Red brick quoins. The return roof rises slightly above the wall level to right. The E façade of the return (which faces into the yard is plain rendered with a glazed door and large modern window. The rear façade of the main portion of the house (which also faces into the yard is also plain rendered and has two large modern windows. The main portion of the lodge was a hipped roof covered in natural slate with two central yellow brick chimney stacks. The roof has a slight overhang supported on clay corbels. Metal rw goods. Gate screen of c.1950s to immediate SW of lodge with simple gates and railings and ecclesiastically inspired gate pillars.