The Game Keeper’s Cottage, The Demesne, Mountain Road, Ballymurphy, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1PL

Small, simple single storey ‘Game Keeper’s’ cottage of perhaps c.1865, with decorative eaves and barges. The building is set within the Portaferry House demesne, just to the SW of Mountain Road, less than half a mile N of Portaferry House itself. Front (S) elevation is symmetrical. To the centre is a plain timber sheeted door with plain fanlight. Almost square sash window to left of door with vertical astragals (2 over 2). Similar window to right of door. Brick dressings to all openings. Rear (N) elevation- Roughly half of this elevation is taken up with a small lean to timber conservatory within which there is a single glazed door to the main building. Apparent changes to stonework and outline of wall suggest that there was once a small lean to [?kitchen] extension in place of conservatory. Rest of wall is blank although outline of small window (now blocked up) to gable is still visible. To the W gable there is a single upper level window, as front. To the E gable are two windows, one to ground floor and one to upper level, both as front. The gabled roof is covered with Bangor blue slates, with a single red brick chimney stack in centre. This chimney has simple corbelling and two decorative pots.. Decorated eaves and barge boards. Small Velux window to rear. Well with remains of cast iron pump situated a few yards from yard wall to rear. Cottage faces away from estate road. PVC rainwater goods Large walled yard to rear with mono-pitched Bangor blue slate roofed out houses and doorway to road. .