Comgall House, Camphill Community Glencraig, 4 Seahill Drive, Holywood, BT18 0DB

A two-storey three-bay Gothic Revival house, built c.1830, located in an extensive site to the north side of Seahill Road, Holywood, and used as a residential unit for people with learning difficulties. The house is of rectangular plan form and much altered with additions to south entrance front and large residential extension to east. Roof is pitched replacement natural slate with angled ridge tiles, concealed behind a parapet, part crennellated with raised finialled gables. Chimneystacks removed. Rainwater goods are extruded aluminium. Walling is cement rendered over a chamfered plinth with string course between floors and buttresses to front extensions. Windows are generally triple transom-and-mullioned four-centred-arched 4/6 sashes (4/4 to first floor) in chamfered cast stone surrounds with quatrefoil frieze and offset roofs. Windows to main house extensions are bi-partite sashes with plain reveals and projecting cills with label moulding over. Principal elevation faces south; first floor side bays are all that remain of the original configuration, each having a single transom and mullion window. Central bay comprises a full height extension with single-storey full-width entrance lobby to front and flat-roofed single-storey bays to either side (that to left is wider, projecting westward). Side bays each have a transom and mullion window to south, that to left also has two windows to west; entrance lobby has a breakfront four-centred-arched rebated entrance door with gable over, and a window to either side; three windows to first floor. To east side is a lower wing, similarly detailed, with a bi-partite window to first floor set in projecting offset surround, and two windows with label moulds to ground floor. West elevation has a window to each floor set in a central breakfront. North elevation has a full height canted bay to centre and a window to each floor to side bays; lower left wing has windows as front. East elevation is abutted by the extension; gable is incorporated into courtyard extension and has modern openings. Setting The house is set within the Glencraig Camphill Community, in extensive mature planted grounds with several other residential buildings, offices and workshops on site. The site has views over Belfast Lough and is accessed via a long tarmacadam drive from west. Roof: natural slate Walling: Cement rendered Windows: timber RWG: Aluminium