Solitude, [?60] Belfast Road, Edenslate, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23

Site, on the SW side of the Belfast Road, roughly a mile N of Ballygowan, formerly occupied by a two storey farmhouse, demolished c.1987 with two modern dwellings now on the general site. The former house was described in the 1st survey (20th Nov. 1973) as a ‘2 storey farm house with attic. Roof slated, gable ends, plain barges. Chimneys rendered. Eaves course. Walls recent pebbledash. Bevel stone quoins. Rendered base. N front has 5 first floor and 4 ground floor drop hung windows, horizontal astragals, shouldered cement surround. Central doorway, elliptic[al] arch head, 3-pane fanlight, panelled door, plain sidelights with panelled apron; cement surround. Farmyard adjoining with outbuildings of whitewashed stone rubble. Condition fair. House front about 38 feet’. Nothing survives of the house but the outbuildings are still in evidence.