Former Dunleath Arms, 72A Main Street, Ballywalter, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2JP

Large single storey former hunting lodge/public house of 1902 by W.J. Fennell, in ‘Arts and Crafts’ / English Domestic Revival style with dominating rosemary tile roof, veranda, lych gate-like vehicle entrance, dormers, bays and whitewashed roughcast façade. The building, which has been converted to two dwellings, is set on the west side of Main Street, Ballywalter. The entire building is finished in rough cast. There are decorative clay ridge tiles to the roofs, with clay finials to the rear gables. The front E elevation is asymmetrical. It is single storey with dormered attics with a large dominating red tile roof, which stretches to form a timber veranda at the front. In the centre of the elevation there is a wide arched entrance within an open timbered gabled porch, which leads to a courtyard at the rear. There are two carved harpy-like gargoyle figures attached to the timber pillars supporting the porch. Each side of this porch and courtyard has been converted to separate dwelling houses. The front of that to the left (No 72A) has two very large multi-sided (canted) bays under the veranda, with a central glazed door between. The returns to the rear of both houses (which form the uprights of the ‘U’ shape), each have large, multi-pane windows, some with segmental arch heads and brick dressings. These returns appear to have been extended somewhat to the rear, though these extensions may be almost contemporary. There are several flat roofed dormers, like the front. A brick and rendered wall divides the courtyard, and there is a low castellated rendered wall to the front.