Springmount, 39 Springmount Road, Tullygarvan, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6NF

Springmount is a large, two-storey, double gabled late Georgian farmhouse set to the west of Springmount Road, just over a mile west of Ballygowan. The building appears to have been constructed in two stages, with the gabled section to the rear probably representing the original dwelling.

The east-facing front façade features a central timber-panelled door with a semicircular fanlight, now filled with early 20th-century stained glass. The doorway and fanlight are surrounded by a moulded architrave encased with fluted pilasters supporting an unusual broken pediment at the base, giving the outer surround an odd Mannerist character. Three steps lead to the door. To the left and right of the doorway are double sash windows fitted with recently added unsuitable louvered shutters. The current owner has confirmed that originally there were two single sash windows to each side of the doorway, the positions of which are still marked on the render. These windows, together with those at first floor level, appear to have Georgian panes, though this is an illusion created by the present owner who has placed simulated glazing bars on the inside of the panes. Five single sash windows are positioned across the first floor front.

The south-facing double gabled façade has a ground floor window with another directly above it to the right, positioned on the rear gable near the centre of the façade. Both windows are similar in size to those at first floor front but have modern frames made to simulate sash windows with Georgian panes. The north façade has windows in equivalent positions to the south façade, with a sash frame to the first floor window and an overtly modern frame to the ground floor window, which is slightly larger than the one above it.

The rear façade is largely covered by a long single-storey extension across most of the ground floor except for a section to the right. The central portion of the extension appears to be original or at least the oldest section, featuring a slated hipped roof and probably originally four-sided. To the left and right of this section are flat-roofed portions of much more recent construction. Each section of the extension has a modern window, though the oldest section probably retains a modern frame in an original opening. The left section has a partly glazed door adjoining its window. To the right of the extension, on the main rear façade, is a small window with a modern frame. At first floor level are two small outer windows with modern frames designed to simulate the original sash, with a larger stairwell window featuring Georgian panes at the centre.

The front, north and south facades are finished in lined render with chamfered quoins and a high base to the front. The rear and extensions are finished in roughcast. The main roof and that to the oldest section of the extension are covered in Bangor blues. Four rendered chimney stacks, one to each gable, rise from the roof. Parapets are present to the front section. The roof uses a mixture of PVC and cast iron rainwater goods. The pitch of the roof to the rear gable is marginally steeper than that to the front, further suggesting that the rear portion is the older section.

The left-hand section of the rear extension is adjoined to the south façade of a fairly recent single-storey outbuilding, which in turn is joined to the north wing of a courtyard of original two-storey rubble-built outbuildings, now somewhat altered with the inclusion of new openings and pan tiles.