- Building type: Gate Lodge/Screen
- Date of construction: 1783
- Architect: James Wyatt/James McBlain
- Listing: B+
- HB/SMR Ref: HB03/12/012
- 2nd Survey by EHS: No
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Bishop's Gate, Mussenden Road, Downhill
County Londonderry
Classical style pedimented gate screen with 2 Doric columns and rounded arch opening with pilasters. Rounded arch pedestrian entrance in screen wall at right side, statue alcove on left (statue now gone). Gate lodge on right hand side with pointed arch doorway and rounded arch sash window either side. Vermiculated blocks round windows, corner pinnacles and rounded pillars on corners
| Stone Type Category: | Buff-Pink Sandstone |
| Primary Stone Type: | Barony Glen Sandstone |
| Secondary Stone Type: | Ballycastle Sandstone |
| Other Stone Type: | Basalt |
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| Stonework Construction: | Plain ashlar |
| Stonework Condition: | Stonework is in good general condition with minimal evidence of deterioration through some surface roughening of isolated sandstone blocks. Weathering of some decorative stonework has resulted in loss of definition. |
| Condition Assessment (QUB): | 2 |
