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Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, built 1844, on a shallow T-shaped plan with (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle pedimented Doric portico; two-bay single-storey rear (south) elevation. Now in ruins. Pitched roof on a shallow T-shaped plan now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-granite "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze on entablature. Square-headed central door opening behind (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle pedimented Doric portico approached by flight of overgrown cut-granite steps with cut-granite pilasters centred on cut-granite columns supporting cut-granite "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" pediment on blind frieze on entablature, and concealed red brick block-and-start surround with no fittings surviving. Square-headed flanking window openings with sills now missing, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set back from road at entrance to grounds of Castleboro House.
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