Ballyfounder House, 16 Ballyfounder Road, Ballyfounder, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1RE

Large, relatively plain, two storey farmhouse of perhaps c.1850, with large modern flat roofed porch to front, single storey rear return and modern window frames throughout. The property is set on the N side of the Ballyfounder Road, c.2 miles SE of Portaferry. The front façade faces roughly S and is symmetrical. To the centre of the ground floor is a relatively large flat roof porch with timber front door to W face, a large modern three pane timber window to S (front), and a smaller modern window to W. All the windows have modern frames. To each side of porch is a single window with label moulding with lion’s head stops. Three evenly spaced windows to first floor as previous but with moulding etc. The W gable has window to left of ground floor and one to right of first floor, both as previous. E gable has a square window to right on ground floor with window as previous gable to left of first floor. Rear has windows of various sizes, with four to the first floor and two to the ground floor. To the right of centre to the ground floor is a small kitchen return with gabled roof and small PVC conservatory/rear porch to E side. The entire façade is finished in unpainted lined render with moulded chamfered quoins to front. The gabled roof is covered with what appear to be Bangor blue slates and has four evenly spaced yellow brick chimney stacks with simple corbelling and a pot each to the third and fourth stacks (to E). PVC gutters and down spouts. Extensive range of single and two storey outbuilding to N and to E, with some on opposite side of Ballyfounder Road. The largest of these, to the N has the appeaarance of once serving as rooms for farm labourers etc., having small Georgian paned windows. Low rubble wall to road and around front garden of house.