The Ivies, 41 Station Road, Craigavad, Holywood, County Down, BT18 0BP

A two-storey multi-bay detached roughcast rendered house built c.1870 and located to the north side of Station Road, Craigavad. Rectangular on plan with two canted bays and single-storey porch to front; single-storey porch and large two-storey return with conservatory to rear; attached garage to southeast. Pitched natural slate roof over exposed rafter tails with blue/black angled ridge tiles and decorative bargeboard to gables; five rendered chimneystacks having moulded caps and paired tall decorative pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on overhanging eaves. Walling is painted roughcast render. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding sash, the majority without horns. The principal elevation faces southwest and is eight openings wide to first floor; ground floor has canted bays to far left and right; central gabled porch with twelve-paned timber-framed window to each cheek; to left and right of porch is a window. Entrance door is four-panelled with brass furniture accessed by single stone step. The northwest elevation has two windows to first floor; window to left at ground floor. The rear (northeast) elevation is abutted by a full height extension to right and a flat-roofed single-storey extension to centre. Fenestration has been altered with original windows remaining to first floor over flat-roofed extension. The two-storey return has large modern window to first floor and plastic conservatory to ground floor at gable; right cheek has three windows at first floor right, and three windows to ground floor; left cheek has two windows to first floor; abutted by flat-roof extension to ground floor containing modern timber door. The southeast elevation is abutted to ground floor by modern garage. Setting Situated on an leafy road to the north side of Bangor Road near Craigavad. Set back from Station Road accessed via squared rendered gate piers with stone caps and modern timber-sheeted gates. Lawn and shrub garden to rear. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughca Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron