Eden Vale, 130 Portaferry Road, Ballywatticock, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2AH

Large two storey gabled farm house (now a guest house) much extended over the years. The house is situated at the end of a long lane off the Portaferry Road, roughly 2 miles SW of Newtownards. Front SW facade has central elliptical arched doorway with panelled timber door encased with timber panelled narrow pilasters. On the outer sides of the pilasters are sidelights with margins and Victorian looking coloured glass. Below the sidelights are panelled aprons, with pilasters (as before) to the outer edge of the door screen and a ‘radial’ fanlight above. To the left and right of the doorway is a single sash window with ‘Georgian’ panes and plain rendered narrow surrounds, with three evenly spaced similar windows to the first floor, set on a cill band. Attached to the NW gable is a shorter two storey section with two gabled half dormers with modern timber windows with ‘Georgian’ panes, made to resemble sash windows. To the ground floor is a set of French doors with large sidelights. To the right side of the NW gable of the main house is a window to the ground floor and one to the first floor, as front. The NW gable and rear of the shorter gabled section are both blank. The SE gable of the main house has a window (as front) to the left side on the first floor with an odd looking narrow timber window with many panes, to the left on the ground floor. To the right on the ground floor is a modern window made to resemble the front facade sash windows. This gable merges into a long two storey gabled return which has three large modern windows to the first floor and two very large modern windows to the ground floor between which is a modern glazed door with large sidelight to left. The NE gable of the return has a small modern casement window to the left on the first floor. This gable merges with the NE side of a two storey gabled projection, which has a large modern window to the first floor and two glazed doors to the ground floor. The NW gable of this projection has two modern windows to the ground floor. This gable merges with a two storey (seemingly) flat roofed section built in the space enclosed by the rear (NE) of the main house, the return and the projection. This ‘in fill’ section has two modern windows to the first floor (with the one to the right larger) and two modern windows to the ground floor (with the one to the left much larger than that to the right). The entire facade is finished in rough cast render and painted. The roofs of the main house, the return, the back projection and the small section to the front (with the French doors) are all pitched and covered with Bangor blue slates. There are two rendered chimney stacks to the gables of the main house, one to the gable of the return and one to the gable of the back projection. Mixture of cast iron and PVC rw goods. Large outbuildings to NE. Remains of workings of weighbridge in garden wall to S.