23 Rock Meeting Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT35 6QR

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1850. T-shaped on plan, facing east with gabled two-storey rear return. Located on an elevated site to the west of Rock Meeting Road, accessed via a long gravel drive with a large rear yard enclosed by single and two-storey rubblestone outbuildings. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, two replacement brown brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods supported on iron drive-through brackets. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with multi-pane timber sash windows unless otherwise noted on granite cills. Front east elevation is three windows wide with central elliptical-arched entrance having tripartite doorcase comprising; four-panelled timber door, fixed-pane sidelights over apron and tripartite overlight. Door opens onto granite platform with single granite step. Gabled south elevation has a single window to right at each floor; abutted to left by a single-storey natural slate roofed lean-to comprising tripartite metal window, right cheek blank, left cheek with square-headed timber sheeted door. Rear west elevation comprises a central round-arched stairwell window at landing level; window to each floor to right; abutted to left by a gabled two-storey rendered return with natural slate roof, multi-pane casement windows and redbrick chimneystack (off ridge on north slope). Return comprises central window to ground floor with two windows to first floor at gable; right cheek not viewed; left cheek has a full width catslide roof with recessed open entrance porch through a segmental-arched opening to right with extended catslide to left comprising a window to north, cheeks blank. Gabled north elevation has two windows to each floor (that to top right is a mock sliding sash casement). Setting Located on an elevated site to the west of Rock Meeting Road at the end of a long gravel avenue with slender square granite gate piers (no gate) with chamfered corners and projecting pyramidal cap. Front garden enclosed by low redbrick walls with tooled masonry coping, cast-iron railings and decorative cast-iron gates supported on decorative cast-iron posts. Rectangular rear yard enclosed to the south by a multi-bay two-storey rubblestone outbuilding having pitched natural slate roof, redbrick lined openings with timber sheeted doors and a single flight of external stone steps. The yard is enclosed to the north by a lime render over rubblestone multi-bay two-storey outbuilding having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron wall-ties, steel casement windows and timber sheeted doors. To the west is a small, single-storey, rubblestone, natural slate roofed, two bay pigsty, abutted by later concrete structures. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron