Lough View, 220 Scrabo Road, Castleaverry, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4SJ

Lough View is a neat and compact two-storey late Victorian gabled farmhouse dating from around the 1880s, situated to the east of Scrabo Road approximately one mile south of Newtownards, with views towards Strangford Lough. The building may have been constructed around an earlier house of pre-1834 origin, as a building is recorded on this site on the 1834 and 1858-60 Ordnance Survey maps.

The symmetrical east front, which faces away from the road towards the lough, features decorative mouldings to the windows, though the window frames themselves are now modern. In the centre of the ground floor is a projecting flat-roofed porch. To the front of the porch is a recent partly glazed door with matching 6-pane sidelights and a three-pane elliptical arch fanlight above, all set within an elliptical arch-headed opening with plain surround. To both the north and south sides of the porch are segmental arch-headed windows encased with plain pilasters, moulded archivolt with decorative keystone and brackets to the cills. Twinned windows flank the porch on either side with similar surrounds. The first floor features three sets of twinned windows, slightly narrower than those on the ground floor, with semicircular heads and archivolts without keystones. The north gable contains a small flat arch window to the far right with plain surround and two single first-floor windows similar in style to the main front windows. The south gable is similarly treated with two first-floor windows. To the left on the ground floor is a large doorway with modern glazed double doors, now surrounded by a hipped roof PVC conservatory.

The rear facade has four flat arch windows to the ground floor of varying sizes, with moulded architraves and decorative keystone to the third and fourth windows. The first window has a plain surround and the second has a similar surround but with decorative keystone; this window was formerly a doorway. The entire facade is finished in pebbledash with chamfered quoins and base. The roof is covered with Bangor blue slates and features two pebbledashed chimney stacks with simple corbelling.

Wrought iron railings and a gate to the left at the front and to the northwest of the house are stamped 'W. Kennedy N.T.Ards 1888'. The building is well maintained and attractively presented. The interior appears to have retained its original layout and some of its original detailing. The current owner acquired the property in 1984 and installed the modern window frames, and also converted a rear doorway into a window.