Barwhillanty Lodge

Barwhillanty Lodge is an asymmetrical picturesque country villa designed by architect A. Thomson of Eanan Brewery, with plans dated from 1886 to 1887. The building features considerable 20th-century demolition of its rear service wings but retains an unexpectedly lavish interior. It stands two storeys and an attic high, constructed with coursed rubble walling and polished sandstone dressings.

The windows are primarily bi- or tripartite single lights in the attic, all of which are sash and case with plate glass glazing. The entrance elevation showcases a shallow projecting three-storey square tower at the center, with a timber gabled porch, corbelled eaves cornice, and a steep facetted slate roof. To the right, there is a gabled bay with a square projecting two-storey window, while to the left, a single-storey projecting square window is found at ground level, with a blind first floor above, featuring deeply overhanging eaves and steeply pitched roofs.

On the garden elevation, the long asymmetrical front includes a gabled bay to the left and a good timber and glass conservatory to the right, alongside a modern hexagonal glazed projection at the far right that contains a swimming pool. The rear elevation has truncated mansard roofed projecting wings that once formed a service courtyard, now reduced to a single storey.

The building is topped with tall corniced stacks featuring octagonal cans and slate roofs, and it has decorative barley-sugar twist cast-iron downpipes. Inside, the lodge boasts very high-quality carved chimneypieces in the drawing and dining rooms, built-in display cupboards, and elaborate dado panelling made of papier-mâché designed to resemble plasterwork. The drawing room features a good strapwork ceiling, and throughout the lodge, there are good panelled doors with intricate brass door furniture.