Ballycushan House, 20 Old Ballyclare Road, Templepatrick, Co Antrim, BT39 0BJ

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1900, with an octagonal lantern, projecting bays and a two-storey return. Facing south on the north side of Old Ballyclare Road the house is set on its own grounds with the remains of a 17th century ruin to the rear, an early stone outbuilding to the rear and several 19th and 20th century sheds and outbuildings. M-profile pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and decorative timber bargeboards to the paired gables on both side elevations with timber finials. Original cast-iron ogee-moulded guttering and square-profile downpipes. Cement rendered walling with plinth course and rusticated render quoins to the front elevation only. A running moulded string course above ground floor level continues across the front and both side elevations. Segmental-headed window openings to the first floor, square-headed to the ground floor, concrete sills and replacement hardwood casement windows. A central entrance bay projection is surmounted by a decorative gable, and flanked by a pair of full-height three-sided canted bays. Segmental-headed front door opening to the entrance bay with blind spandrel panels and a timber door frame with sidelights above panels, and a tripartite overlight with timber panelled door. Door opens onto stone platform and three stone steps to a front gravel area within a large front lawn. Abutting the rear elevation to the east, is a tall redbrick wall laid in English garden wall bond, while to the west is a tall rubble stone wall with concrete coping, both having arched openings lined in redbrick, giving access to the rear yard. Setting to the rear of the house is a five-bay two-storey rubble stone former house, built c.1650, now roofless and in a ruined state. This early house has a large projecting chimney to either gable end and retains some timber joinery such as sash windows, architraves, panelled shutters and panelled doors. A further multi-bay two-storey stone outbuilding to the rear of the ruin, built c.1700, with a pitched corrugated iron roof and coursed rubble stone walling with large squared quoins. The square-headed window and door openings have voussoired stone lintels and jamb stones with later timber doors and windows.