Barnett’s Lodge is a short residential cul-de-sac located off Barnett’s Court in east Belfast, within the historic Ballycloghan area. It lies to the south of Barnett’s Road and forms part of the same residential layout developed behind the main thoroughfare.
The name Barnett’s Lodge is derived from Barnett’s Road, continuing the established local pattern of applying the Barnett name to subsidiary streets within this development. The use of the term “Lodge” reflects a common twentieth-century residential naming convention and does not appear to refer to a specific gate lodge or documented building of that name.
Barnett’s Road was approved in 1901 and was named after Dr Henry Norman Barnett, a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine who lived nearby at Thornhill on the Upper Newtownards Road. Municipal records show that the name was approved alongside Castlehill Road and Castleview Road as part of the planned development off the Newtownards Road, with later references to its completion, proposed renaming, and continuation.
No separate naming resolution specifically approving the name Barnett’s Lodge has been located in the surviving Improvement Committee minutes. The cul-de-sac takes its name from Barnett’s Road, following common municipal and developer-led practice for naming minor residential streets within an established street scheme.
Barnett’s Lodge forms part of the later residential development associated with Barnett’s Road and its immediate hinterland.
• Street type: Residential cul-de-sac
• Area: Ballycloghan, east Belfast
• Postcode district: BT5
• Associated streets: Barnett’s Road, Barnett’s Court
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 18 June 1901
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 17 May 1904
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 18 February 1908
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 7 May 1935
• Keith Haines, Knock, Knock… Who Was There? (2014), pp. 58–66
• Ordnance Survey maps of Belfast