Ardbear Cottage

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, with gable-fronted porch to front. Now disused. Hipped slate overhanging roof with recent supporting galvanised uprights to eaves, pitched slate roof to porch, rendered chimneystack and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with concrete plinth around building. Square-headed window openings with painted tooled stone sills and timber casement windows, bipartite to front and quadripartite to gables. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Painted rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron railing and gates.

This mid-nineteenth-century gate lodge was built for Ardbear House. The building, set back from the road in a wooded area has unusually wide overhanging eaves. Its timber casement windows enhance it and a timber battened door has also been retained. The lodge is the only remaining structure associated with Ardbear House, the home of Samuel Jones, County Surveyor who won the contract to build Alexander Nimmo's New Central Road.