25 Ballymullan Road, Crawfordsburn, Bangor, Co Down, BT19 1JG

A single-storey house with two attic floors in the Domestic-Revival style, dated 1926, situated on a large mature site north of Ballymullan Road in Crawfordsburn. The building is rectangular on plan and comprises three bays, with dormers, a canted bay to the west, a box-bay to the south, and a single-storey extension to the east with garage to the south.

The steeply pitched roof is covered with rosemary tiles and has a half-hipped form with gablets. It features projecting purlins and angled ridge tiles. A roughcast rendered chimneystack to the rear slope carries six clay pots, and a smaller chimneystack to the ridgeline has three clay pots. A roof tower dovecote stands to the east. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods are fixed to timber-panelled overhanging eaves; a cast-iron hopper is dated 1926.

The walls are painted roughcast render on a recessed red-brick plinth, with stretcher-bonded red brick to the veranda. Timber panelling in Tudor style enriches the entrance bay to the north elevation. Windows throughout are multi-pane steel casements with leaded glazing and terracotta-tiled sills; bay windows have rosemary-tiled roofs. Dormers have steeply overhanging roofs.

The north elevation has a central entrance bay that is timber panelled and slightly recessed, comprising a single lattice window with timber sill. A slightly projecting porch is accessed by two red-brick steps and contains a Gothic-style three-panelled timber door in a Tudor-style timber panelled surround with decorative cast-iron panels and door furniture. The entrance bay is flanked by multi-pane tri-partite windows. Three multi-pane hipped dormer windows with glazed cheeks rise above; the central dormer is tri-partite and surmounted by two diminutive roof-lights, while the flanking dormers are bi-partite.

The east elevation displays half-hipped gablet roof detail with overhanging eaves on projecting purlins. An elongated multi-paned tri-partite window serves the upper attic floor, below which are three multi-pane windows to the lower attic floor, the left-hand example being larger. A timber-sheeted tower dovecote rises above the roof slope to the left, terminating in a pyramidal tiled roof with finial. The ground floor has a half-panelled timber door to the centre and a multi-pane window to the left. A small single-storey hipped-roofed return is abutted to the right, with a single multi-pane window to the north face, blank south and east faces, and a corrugated iron lean-to abutting the east face (south face open). To the left a larger single-storey hipped-roofed return contains a single window flanked by timber-sheeted doors to the north face, a blank east face, and a flat-roofed return abutting the south face. The abutments and wall to the east create a central yard partially covered with corrugated plastic roofing, accessed via a decorative iron latch gate.

The south elevation features a central gabled bay with a hipped-roofed box-bay to the ground floor surmounted by a multi-pane bi-partite window, and a multi-pane tri-partite window to its right. A flat-roofed return to the far right has stepped parapet walls to the east and west faces and a gutter to the south; it contains a large window and a diminutive window to the left on the west face, a blank south face, and a door and original garage door to the east face. To the left is a recessed bay with an overhanging roof supported on three square timber columns, creating a veranda accessed by two brick steps (the porch is entirely in red brick). To the right of the veranda is an original three-panelled timber door with diamond lattice glazing to the top section and cast-iron door handle; a multi-pane bi-partite window is positioned to its left, and a small multi-pane hipped dormer with glazed cheeks rises above the rear door.

The west elevation shows half-hipped gablet roof detail with overhanging eaves on projecting purlins. Left of centre at ground floor is a single-storey hipped-roofed canted bay window fully glazed over a plinth wall, with two multi-pane bi-partite windows above. To the far right at ground floor is a timber-framed veranda opening infilled with a multi-pane upper panel and solid lower panel.

The building stands on a large mature site within the established residential setting of Crawfordsburn village. A tarmacadammed driveway approaches from the southeast. A mature garden occupies the north side, while a landscaped garden to the south features miniature hedgerows and shrubs, all enclosed by mature hedgerow and trees.