The Old Rectory, 122 Circular Road, Jordonstown, Co.Antrim, BT37 0RH

The Old Rectory is a detached three-bay two-storey brick and roughcast former rectory with attic, built in 1896 in the Arts and Crafts style. It is located on the north side of Circular Road, facing south, and is rectangular on plan.

The left bay is gabled with a perpendicular ridge. The central and right bays contain first-floor accommodation within the attic. The centre bay is lit by a raised canted bay with a castellated parapet, while the right bay is lit by a dormer. The pitched natural slate roof has perforated red clay cresting, with angled ridge tiles on the left bay. Painted timber bargeboards with carved brackets and exposed rafter ends are present, along with half-round uPVC gutters. The front pitch has a crow-stepped raised sandstone parapet and a red brick chimneystack at the ridge between the centre and right bays.

The dormers have leaded flat roofs and cheeks with moulded painted timber cornices. They feature tripartite 3/1-light casements to the front right bay and rear left bay, with an additional diminished dormer to the centre bay attic. The walling comprises Flemish-bonded red brick over a chamfered plinth, with a dentilled stringcourse at eaves level and painted roughcast above the ground floor. The left bay apexes have decorative half-timbering.

Windows are square-headed painted timber 1/1 sashes with margined lights to the top sash, smooth-rendered reveals and stone sills. Ground floor windows have dressed sandstone lintels. The south elevation's left bay contains a single-storey splayed projection with a parapet of sandstone coping with raised ends. The ground floor has a bipartite window, while the left bay features a bipartite window in a segmental arch-headed recess. The attic is lit by a bipartite 6/1 sash. The centre bay displays an elliptical-arch-headed painted timber and glazed door in a moulded surround with a carved tympanum on shouldered corbels. To the left of the door is a small elliptical-arch-headed stained glass casement. The right bay has a single tripartite window.

The west elevation is two windows wide and two storeys tall. The north elevation's ground floor on the left end is abutted by an extension, while the remainder is abutted by a conservatory. The exposed section has two windows on the first floor and one bipartite 6/1 sash on the second floor.

A modern extension to the rear is detailed as a house but without a stringcourse; its windows are 6/1 sashes. The north elevation of the extension is blank, the left cheek has one window, and the right cheek has two windows flanking a central square-headed painted timber vertically sheeted door.

A modern conservatory adjoins the building, with a slated lean-to roof with rooflights and a central gablet with red clay crested ridge tiles. It features a square-headed painted timber and glazed double-leaf door with a glazed tympanum. The walling is glazed over a red brick plinth. A canted bay with three windows and a hipped roof abuts the east gable at its left end. The exposed section of the east gable has a single window to the ground and first floors, with an ocular vent to the gable apex.

The house is situated in lawned gardens with mature trees and box hedges. Access is via a decorative wrought-iron double gate hinged to square brick pillars with ornate terracotta caps, leading to a modern tiled drive. A rear tiled patio and detached modern garage complete the setting.