Ballynahown Court

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1860, having a single-bay entrance porch to the centre of the main façade. Later in use as a private house and now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with a central moulded brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative timber bargeboards. Veranda-style overhanging eaves to the front elevation (west) supported on cast-iron columns. Constructed of red brick with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed doorcase to projecting porch having a replacement timber sheeted door. Set back from road in own grounds with a low limestone plinth wall with decorative cast-iron railings with spear finials and a cast-iron gate to the road frontage (west). Ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan to either end of railings. Located across the road to the east of the main entrance gates serving Ballynahown Court (15403506).

An appealing mid-to-late nineteenth-century gate lodge serving Ballynahown Court (15403514), which retains its early form and character. Built of red brick, echoing the construction of Ballynahown Court itself, this gate lodge acts as an architectural prelude to the more illustrious main house. The veranda porch supported on elegant slender cast-iron railings and the decorative timber bargeboards are interesting features that add visual appeal to this unassuming structure. This structure replaced an early gate lodge serving the main entrance gates (15403506) to Ballynahown Court, which was located to the west of the present lodge (inside the gates) but is no longer extant. The elegant cast-iron railings to the front of this lodge add incident to the roadscape to the north of Ballynahown and are of artistic merit. Located on the opposite side of the road to the estate entrance this gate lodge presents itself as an eye catcher at the end of the avenue. The limestone gate piers to either end of the railings, which mirror those found to the main entrance gates to the west, helps to tie this lodge into a self-contained unit with this main gateway.