10 Cunningburn Road, Cunningburn, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2AR

Cunningburn Mill is a group of houses picturesquely situated in a hollow roughly 1 mile NW of the Mount Stewart estate. Some of the houses are converted mill related buildings and almost all have been renovated/converted recently. No.10 is situated at the N end of the grouping. It is a long single storey gabled building consisting of a house and a shed. The house takes up most of the building to the N and was probably originally two houses. Its front S facade has a timber sheeted stable door to the left with a sash window, with ‘Georgian’ panes. There are four similar windows to the right of this, then another stable door, with a further window to the far right. All of this house section has a thatched roof to the front. To the E gable there is a small slated lean to section with a small dilapidated sash window. There is a low, partly harled, wall to the front of the house section. The section of the building to the S has a Bangor blue slated roof with two timber sheeted doors to the S facade and a sash window, with ‘Georgian’ panes to the far right (this window now belongs to the house). The W gable of this ‘shed’ section is blank. The rear of this entire building is cluttered and messy. The house section appears to have been slightly extended at the rear in lean-to fashion and now has a large modern window, but the rear of the shed section is largely obscured by dog kennels and other structures (including a curious tower-like structure) and all that could be discerned was a small eight pane window and a small gabled projection. The rear of the roof of the house section is covered in corrugated asbestos and there are three rendered chimney stacks. The front facade of the entire building is rendered but, from what could be observed, some render has come away at the rear. This building is probably the oldest of the whole grouping and is certainly pre-1776 and probably much older. A piece of oak from the building analysed by the dendrochronology guys at Queens which suggest an earlier construction date of around 1700.