Fairholme House, 41 Craigdarragh Road, Helens Bay, Co Down, BT19 1UB

A three-bay two storey attached house built c.1880, located off a private road to the north of the Craigdarragh Road, Helens Bay. Square on plan with two-storey canted bay to east. Pitched natural slate roof with hipped roof over canted bay. Chimneys are painted render stacks with stone plinth and terracotta pots; projecting additional flue to stack at north gable. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on cavetto moulded eaves cornice. Walling is painted smooth render with plinth; cavetto moulded cornice; ‘box’ panel moulding between floors on canted bay; continuous bead moulded course to top of first floor windows. Windows are 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with moulded surrounds and continuous cills. The principal entrance elevation faces SE and is three openings wide with openings close together in centre of façade. Central four-panelled entrance door with fanlight and brass door furniture; chamfered reveal and fluted pilasters; decorative console brackets surmounted by shallow broken-bed pediment. The SW elevation is abutted by adjoining building. The NW elevation is abutted to first floor by adjoining building (HB23/16/018C) The NE elevation comprises canted bay to left; to right, paired windows to each floor. Paired windows divided by simple central Doric pilaster. Setting The house is set back from a private road; having timber electric entrance gates and stone piers with pointed caps. Pebbled to south and east. Enclosed on all sides by mature hedges. Roof: Natural slate Walling: render Windows: timber RWG: Cast-iron