Carrick House, 31 Carrick Road, Carrickdrumman, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3PA

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey detached farmhouse with outbuildings; built c.1840 and located to the west side of Carrick Road south of Banbridge. Rectangular on plan with single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with angled ridge tiles and raised stone verges having rendered chimneystacks to gables. Cast iron half-round rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is roughcast render. Windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with projecting sills. The principal elevation faces east and is three openings wide to each floor arranged around a central doorcase. Four panelled timber door with decorative oval-paned sidelights, surmounted by an ornate spider-web fanlight. The south gable has a smaller 6/6 window to attic; two windows to first and ground floor. The west (rear) elevation has a symmetrical arrangement of openings; abutted at left by the single-storey lean-to extension. To centre is a round-arched multi-paned stairwell window with timber-sheeted door to ground floor. Diminutive timber casement window set in elliptical-arched recess to ground floor right. The north gable was concealed. Setting Set back, but visible from, the road; accessed by a long tarmacadamed lane to east. Surrounded by farmland and bounded by mature hedgerow with some mature trees. Two-storey rubble stone slated barns to north and south enclose the rear yard, accessed from southeast via a set of round gate piers with pointed caps supporting wrought-iron gates. The two-storey barns are rubble stone built to courses with roughly dressed granite quoins, granite sills and plinth blocks to doors; unusual window to south with flush exposed box and flush transom; relieving arch over. Modern farm buildings to south and agricultural shed to northwest. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron