8A, 8C & 8D Kearney Village, Kearney Road, Kearney, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1QP

Long vernacular 'terrace' block of single storey dwellings and a two storey 'information centre' partly pre 1834, but with the two houses to the S end reconstructed in the 1980s. House 8a (HB24/01/088a) is set at the north end of the terrace and has a large 'lean-to' section to its gable end. The front (W) elevation is asymmetrical, with an off centre plain sheeted timber stable door, a sash window to left of door and another to W side of lean to. Similar window to right of door with plain sheeted timber door to far right. Rear has four windows to main house similar to front with two to right slightly larger. Plain timber door to E (rear) of lean-to with low rendered wall around this side of lean to also. N face of lean-to (to gable of house) has a small window to eaves. Entire house finished in rough cast render and painted. The roof of the main house gabled and covered with Bangor blue slates. Stone parapet to N gable, two small rendered chimney stacks. Cast iron gutters and down spouts. To the immediate S of this house is a large two storey former barn which is now a National Trust ‘Information Centre’. The W façade of this building has a timber door to left with two large double timber garage-like timber doors to right (the right hand door is a recent insertion). Between single door and barn doors is rendered flight of steps leading to first floor central timber double door set in gabled half dormer. To either side of this door are two windows, with top sections louvered and six panes to lower sections. Rear façade has five windows to first floor largely as front, with three windows of varying size to ground floor. The whole façade is finished in rough cast and painted. The roof is gabled and covered with Bangor blue slates. Stone parapets, cast iron gutters and down spouts. The two single storey houses to the S of the barn are recent constructions on the site of earlier dwellings. House No.8C (HB24/01/088b) has an asymmetrical front façade with an off centre plain sheeted timber door with window to left. There are with two roughly similar windows to far right of door and a small four pane window just to right of door. House No.8D (HB24/01/088c) has a asymmetric front façade also with right of centre timber sheeted stable door with three windows to left and two to right, all roughly similar to previous house. Gable end of house No.8D has plain timber door to left. Rear of houses 8C & 8D both have PVC windows roughly similar to front but of varying sizes, with PVC conservatory to rear of 8D. No.8C finished in plain render, with No.8D in rough cast render finishing on bell cast with recessed base. Both houses have gabled roofs covered in asbestos 'slate', with PVC gutters and down spouts and rendered parapets. Two small rendered chimney stacks to No.8D with one (without pot) to 8C.