Fort Hill, 85 Bowtown Road, Ballyreagh, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3SL

Largish two storey gabled farm house situated on a slight rise off the Bowtown Road roughly 1 mile SW of Newtownards. Front (N) facade has a central doorway with ‘Ards’ surround consisting of plain pilasters and semicircular archivolt with keystone. The doorway contains a modern panelled and glazed doorway and semicircular fanlight. To left of the doorway is a modern two pane PVC window (with small upper opener), with another similar window to the right. To the first floor are three evenly spaced windows as before but slightly smaller. The W gable has a similar window to the left on the ground and first floors. The right side of this gable merges into the side of a large two storey flat roofed return, with two widows (much as before) to the first floor and a broader window (again with modern PVC frame) to the left on the ground floor. The E gable has a window to the right on the first floor as previous. In the centre of the rear is a full height gabled return which has a two storey flat roofed extension to the W (left) side and a large single storey lean to attached to the gable (S) end. The entire facade is finished in rough cast render with a plain rendered recessed base to the front and rear elevations. Both the return and the flat roofed extension have PVC windows and a glazed rear door. The roofs of the main house and the return are pitched with Bangor blue slates. There are three yellow brick chimneys, two to the gables of the main house and one to the gable of the return. Rendered parapets. PVC rw goods. Gabled outbuilding ‘attached’; to corner of the flat roofed extension to the W.