5 Reagh Island, Comber, Newtownards, BT23 6EN

Description at 22.06.2009 Small, single-storey, detached house of c.1850s, with hipped roof and relatively plain and simple rubble facade, delightfully sited on the eastern shoreline of Reagh Island on the western side of Strangford Lough, roughly 4.5km north of Killinchy (7.5km south-east of Comber.) The house is rectangular; it presents a blank gable to the road. It faces the narrow causeway that links Reagh Island to Cross Island. To the north side, and sharing the same small garden, there is a former outbuilding that was recently converted as a dwelling; the gravelled area between is used as a communal car park. To the north-west corner of the site there is a small corrugated-iron garage and a pre-fabricated summerhouse. The north front is almost symmetrical. To the centre there is a flat-arched door opening with a timber-sheeted part glazed door, above is a shallow plain fanlight; this is employed as the main entrance. To the left there is a flat-arched window opening with 4/4 timber sash frame; the opening is roughly dressed with red clay facing brick. The west façade has a lean-to boiler house to the left and a uPVC oil tank to the right side but is otherwise blank. The south façade is symmetrical with a central flat-arched door opening with a bracketed slated canopy; the door is as before. To either side there is a paired window arrangement, each resting on a common stone sill. Openings have brick dressings. Frames are as before. The east façade is blank. The roof is hipped with natural slate covering and grey fireclay ridge tiles; rainwater goods are uPVC. To the centre of the ridge there are two rendered chimneystacks with two corbelled brick courses. Decorative pots are matching. Walls are constructed in random rubble field stone with a sawtooth brick eaves course. Description at 27.11.2009 The description is as above except: A small uPVC porch has been added at the door on the South elevation. It has natural slate double pitched roof with a fully glazed uPVC double, the sides have differing uPVC windows; uPVC eaves boards have been added to all sides; Chimney stacks have been rendered; and the rear door have been changed to a half glazed typr with a cat flap.