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Detached double-pile two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, having pitched roof porch to front (east). Later extension to rear and canted end bay to side (north). Gables to side (south) incorporated into demesne wall. Pitched and hipped slate roofs having rubble stone chimneystacks and stone gable copings to side (south) along demesne wall. Timber bargeboards to porch. Rendered walls with rubble stone walls to rear extension. Rubble stone buttresses to side (south, north) elevations of porch. Dressed limestone walls to canted bay window. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, openings now blocked. Limestone voussoirs to canted bay window openings. Square-headed door opening to porch, now blocked, having limestone lintel. Rubble stone demesne walls to south with rendered gate piers, having rubble stone ball finials and wrought-iron gates. Set at entrance to Rathbarry Castle.
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