Stone Shed at Mount Stewart, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2RU

Small, unusual and somewhat roughly constructed shed of probable mid 20th century date, with cobblestone faced walls, roughly fashioned stone quoins, dummy doorway and windows and a corrugated iron monopitched roof. The building is situated in the north west corner of the Mount Stewart estate, roughly 2.5 miles north west of Greyabbey. The dummy doorway is located on the on the front SE elevation, and is filled with cobble stones with a semicircular arch head stone surround with ’in/out’ dressings below. There are two stone steps to the doorway. In the centre of the NE elevation is a small dummy window with stone dressings and skeleton voussoirs. The rear elevation is partly open, revealing a concrete block construction with its interior divided into three sections which appear to be used as kennels. The rear is not stone faced and the interior construction suggests that this shed or kennel is entirely modern. The gabled building a few yards to the S of this shed, now called ‘Ros Cuan’ has been extended and modernised recently and converted into apartments.