Edenville, 106 Killinchy Road, Ballygraffan, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5NE

Edenville is a thoroughly modern-looking, one and a half-story farmhouse built around a dwelling of probable pre-1834 origin. While possessing thick walls, the house is largely modern in appearance. It is situated at the end of a long lane to the east of the Killinchy Road, approximately two miles south of Comber.

The front façade, facing northeast, features a gabled porch with a panelled and spoked fanlight centrally positioned. A narrow four-pane window is set within the outer faces of the porch. Flanking the porch are two large windows with modern frames. The rear façade is dominated by a large single-story return featuring various modern windows—two to the gable and one to the north-east side. A modern glazed door is situated to the right of the return, with a large modern window to the left. The southeast gable has two modern first-floor windows alongside a small modern ground-floor window. The northwest gable is blank. The entire façade is finished in rough cast and painted. The steeply pitched roof is covered with pan tiles. Three mono-pitched dormers, which meet the eaves, are positioned at the front, each with a large modern window and timber sheeted sides, complemented by two similar dormers at the rear. Two rendered chimney stacks are present, alongside modern PVC rainwater goods.

Although the present house appears entirely modern, it incorporates sections of the fabric of walls from a dwelling shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1834 and 1858. Records suggest the building was not considered valuable enough to be noted during the 1833 valuation process, and the valuation map from 1863 is missing. The current owner acquired the property in 1975, having been derelict for some years, and undertook a complete remodelling. Prior to a survey in December 1973, the house exhibited a largely symmetrical front façade with a glazed porch covering an ‘Ards’ doorway. The windows were originally Georgian paned sash frames, and a small gabled half dormer was present, with a slightly shallower roof pitch than the current configuration.