Drummaul House, 41 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF

Drummaul House is a two-storey, three-bay house situated on New Street in Randalstown, set well back from the main road within its own gently sloping grounds. The building is approached by a tarmac drive off an adjacent cul-de-sac and is surrounded by lawns, mature trees, tarmac carparks, and a modern paved patio area.

The main block is of coursed basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to the extremities. The entrance elevation faces east and features a hipped roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with a cast iron gutter. The walls are finished with a projecting plain brick block cornice in three courses and raised block dressings to windows and the front entrance, which are smooth rendered and painted. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6 with horns, with exposed sash boxes set in plain rendered reveals and projecting painted stone cills. A single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch features similar walling to the main block with a moulded smooth rendered blocking course and a flat lead-covered roof behind a parapet. The entrance contains a rectangular timber 6-panel doorframe surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with semi-circular arched radial glazing bars in a plain timber frame. The porch is approached by a flight of concrete paved steps flanked by plain iron or steel handrails, with modern antique-style lamps flanking the door.

The south elevation is two storeys and two windows wide to the first floor, with similar walls and slated hipped roof to the entrance front. A gabled dormer with a smooth rendered front and slated cheeks contains a semi-circular arched timber sliding sash, 3 over 6 with radial lights to the head and flush verges to the roof. A curved single-storey bay projects from the ground floor to the right, built of random basalt rubble with similar painted window dressings, two sashed windows, a moulded painted stone cornice, and plain blocking course with lead dressing. To the left of the bay, a doorway (appearing to be a later enlargement of an original window) contains a pair of rectangular metal multi-paned double doors surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with semi-circular arched radial glazing. Cement mortar pointing to the bay's masonry is crudely smeared over stone surfaces with trowelled recessed jointing lines. A modern patio area with ramp leads to this doorway, flanked by modern steel handrails.

The north elevation is similar to the south, including a gabled dormer and four identical windows (two to each floor) like those on the entrance front, with a cast iron gutter and downpipe.

The rear elevation is mostly covered by a modern two-storey extension set back slightly on each side with a lower roofline. The extension reveals original basalt walling to each end, with the central area rendered in dark roughcast with brick courses returning from side elevations along the rear. The extension features a cast iron gutter and three dormer windows similar to those on the south elevation, plus one square modern red brick chimney with a modern pot. The extension itself has both flat and hipped roofs of synthetic slates, is rendered with black stone chippings dry dash, and has metal gutters and downpipes. Ground-floor windows are rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents and projecting concrete cills. A recessed side extension to the rear of the patio is glazed with tinted glass in black metal frames. A large metal flue pipe and steel fire escape stairs stand to the north side of the extension.

A projecting screen wall to the rear yard is built of random basalt rubble with a smooth rendered frieze and concrete copings. It extends to a lower screen wall of roughly coursed basalt rubble with concrete coping, terminating in a gateway comprised of a pair of square basalt rubble piers with Tardree granite copings (gates removed). The pier to the right links via a short screen wall to a gabled single-storey outbuilding.

A tarmac yard to the north side of the extension contains two gabled outbuildings. The outbuilding to the east is attached to the yard gateway and is built of roughly coursed basalt rubble, partly rendered, with a roof slated as the main house. The outbuilding to the west is rendered similarly to the extension with a roof of synthetic slates.

The front boundary is formed by a low basalt rubble wall; boundaries to the other three sides are formed by shrubs and fences.