Burnside House, 35 Burnside Road, Dunadry, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2HZ

Burnside House is a two-storey house of late Georgian foundation, appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832, though its precise date of construction is not recorded. It stands in rural settings within extensive grounds, set back from the road behind a rendered boundary wall surmounted by horizontal timber fencing. The main entrance is approached via a tarmac driveway, with a gateway formed by two large square painted concrete block piers.

The main block displays Georgian classical proportions and character, though recent alterations have detracted from its original appearance. It is constructed of smooth cement render with rusticated quoins to the extremities, a projecting plinth, and projecting eaves courses with shaped brackets supporting the guttering. The roof is laid with natural slates in regular courses between gable upstands, finished with a tiled ridge. Two chimneys, one on each gable, are smooth cement rendered and painted with channel mouldings and moulded cornices; each stack carries three pots.

The west elevation is symmetrical and forms the entrance front, with three bay divisions. There are three dormer windows to this front, each with a slated roof, gabled top with cheeks, and containing a rectangular timber sliding sash window of 3 over 3 panes with horns. The principal ground floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes of 6 over 6 panes with horns and exposed sash boxes, set in smooth rendered reveals with projecting concrete cills. The ground floor windows have rusticated surrounds with shaped heads and keystones, whilst the first floor windows have smooth rendered raised surrounds, lugged and heeled, with raised keystones.

The main entrance is recessed within a moulded elliptical arch with keystone. The doorway is flanked by fluted pilasters and finished with a raised Greek key pattern to the frieze and cornice over. The door itself is 10-panelled, raised and fielded, set in a timber frame and flanked by 4-pane sidelights. Above is a looped radial fanlight. The doorstep is formed in brick laid in herringbone pattern with two sandstone steps. Spaces between the doorway and flanking windows on the ground floor are filled with rectangular panels with quadrant corners, outlined by recessed moulded borders.

The north gable is rendered as the entrance front, with gable copings continuous across the base of the chimney stack as a stringcourse and rusticated quoins to the right-hand extremity. It contains one window to each floor, rectangular timber sashes set in raised rendered block surrounds with keystone motif. At the apex is a smaller attic window, semi-circular headed with 6 over 6 sashes and radial lights to the head, set in a keystone block surround.

To the left of the gable extends a long two-storey rear return comprising two levels, with a canted two-storey bay projecting immediately to the left of the gable and finished with a terracotta ball finial. One chimney stands on the gable of the first stage of the rear return, plain rendered with moulded cornice and two pots. All walls of the return are smooth cement rendered with projecting plinth and stepped projecting eaves courses. Windows are rectangular timber sashes in plain reveals, except for a tall semi-circular headed stair window in the lower roofed return, comprising two 9-pane fixed lights divided by a broad rail with radial lights to the head. The end gable of the rear return is plain rendered with projecting coping and plinth. The south elevation comprises the south gable of the main front block with the rear return set back in stages to the right. The south gable of the main block has rusticated quoins to both extremities and one attic window, with a ground floor doorway containing a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door of 9 panes, set in raised smooth rendered keystone surround, lugged and heeled. A triangular gabled dormer appears in the first block of the return, with slated roof and gable containing two-light angle-headed 4-pane side-hung timber casements. The lower end block of the rear return has an elliptically arched doorway with continuous raised smooth cement surround, containing a rectangular timber 9-panel door, raised and fielded, flanked by 3-pane sidelights and surmounted by a looped radial fanlight in a moulded timber frame, with tiled plinth and brick paved doorstep; a concrete flagged patio extends across the front.

The east gable of the rear return has a semi-circular attic window at the apex, with moulded guttering returning from the side elevation and supported on metal downpipes, one of which stops short of ground level to discharge into a wooden barrel. Rainwater goods throughout comprise moulded cast iron gutters returning to both end gables, with circular metal downpipes and soil pipes.

The rear elevation of the main front block to the left of the return has rusticated quoins to the left-hand extremity, covered by a metal downpipe from moulded guttering on a projecting eaves course.

The dormer windows to the entrance front, the secondary staircase in the rear return, and the rear entrance were all added in 1988. A side entrance from a lane to the rear leads to a yard surrounded by rubble stone, red brick, and rendered outbuildings of little architectural interest.