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Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge with attic level original serving Fort Royal (see 40819034), built c. 1845, having central advanced open single-bay single-storey gable-front timber entrance porch to the front elevation (east). Now in use as a private house with various single-storey additions to the rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack, bargeboards to gable ends having timber spear finials to apexes, and with profiled rainwater goods. Pitched late roof to porch supported on open timber porch with timber spear finial to gable apex. Roughcast rendered walls. Paired square-headed window openings to the main elevation and to side elevations having dressed stone surrounds with central mullion, chamfered stone sills, over-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and with hoodmouldings over. Timber shutters to exterior. Central round-headed doorway having battened timber double-doors, plinth blocks, timber or smooth rendered surround, and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds across road to the main entrance gateway to Fort Royal. Yard to front with rendered rubble stone walls to either side of house. Located in the rural countryside to the north of Rathmullan. Main gateway serving Fort Royal adjacent to the east comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron double gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of curved quadrant sections of roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary walls. Rubble stone boundary walls run along road to either side of gateway (north and south).
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