Mutton Hill, 71 Dromore Road, Banbridge, County Down, BT25 1JK

Mutton Hill is an asymmetrical one-and-a-half-storey house of three bays, built around 1820 and remodelled around 1850. It stands on the north side of Dromore Road in Banbridge, approached via a long tree-lined avenue and set on an elevated rural site.

The house is rendered in roughcast with a rectangular plan and a polygonal glazed porch to the front. A two-storey extension dating from around 1850 was added to the rear, creating parallel roof ridges, and a single-storey porch abuts the southeast corner. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with ridge tiles and raised verges. Four tall roughcast rendered chimneystacks rise from the roof, each topped with tall clay pots. The rainwater goods are a mixture of cast iron and extruded aluminium ogee patterns, carried on projecting eaves.

Windows throughout are replacement multi-paned timber casements, except where timber sliding sash windows are noted. All windows have projecting granite sills. The principal southwest elevation displays two multi-paned casement windows flanking the polygonal porch, which screens the original elliptical entrance. The entrance itself has a four-panelled timber door with brass furniture, a spiderweb fanlight, and geometric sidelights. A tripartite wall-head dormer with 2/2 panes (vertical astragals) is flanked by diminutive 2/2 windows (horizontal astragals) with glazed cheeks. The southwest elevation also has a tripartite multi-paned dormer.

The northwest elevation contains a 6/6 timber sliding sash window to the left of centre at first floor, and two at ground floor. The extended gable of the rear block projects above, featuring a diminutive attic window, a canted oriel window with 6/6 and 2/2 cheeks to the first floor, and a multi-paned ground-floor window. The northeast elevation is entirely abutted by the Victorian two-storey extension and single-storey lean-to porch and is not visible. The rear extension displays asymmetrical fenestration with two 6/6 windows to the first floor and three windows at ground level. The lean-to porch, slightly recessed to the left, has a modern glazed timber door and timber casement window, with an opening to the southeast containing a modern timber-sheeted door. The southeast elevation has a projecting chimneybreast containing a 6/6 attic window and a multi-paned timber casement window at ground level, with the rear extension gable above featuring a 2/2 attic window.

The setting includes a gravelled driveway to the front, accessed via two roughcast rendered gate piers supporting replacement timber gates. A yard to the rear is accessed via painted gate piers with pointed stone caps. The yard contains a variety of rendered and whitewashed outbuildings, all with timber-sheeted half-doors and some retaining original fenestration. The earliest is a rubble stone block to the south, abutting the southeast corner of the house, with a multi-paned window and timber-sheeted door to its south gable, and timber-sheeted half-doors to the east elevation. An east stable block has raised stone verges, a weathervane, and an original wrought-iron latch-gate to its southeast gable. To the south of the yard stands a Victorian slated dog kennel with wrought-iron railings and a latch-gate.