26 Ballynafoy Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5BA

A symmetrical three-bay two storey roughcast rendered farmhouse with outbuildings; built c.1850 and located to the south side of Ballynafoy Road, south of Banbridge. Rectangular on plan with two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof to rear of main block and return with blue/black angled ridge tiles and replacement white brick chimneystacks. Front slope of main block is roofed with fibre cement slate. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is cement render over rubble masonry with smooth rendering to upper sections of gables. Windows are 6/6 timber-framed sash (no horns) with projecting granite sills and replacement timber casements to rear. The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged around an elliptical-headed doorcase with three openings at each floor. Central doorcase comprises replacement raised-and-fielded four panel timber door, flanked by sidelights with panelled aprons and surmounted by a timber spider-web fanlight. Door is accessed via a set of four stone steps, with metal bootscraper to third step. The south gable is blank. The west (rear) elevation is abutted to centre by the two-storey return. Window to first floor left and right, and to ground floor right. The south elevation of the return has two widely spaced windows to first floor and a cement rendered porch and window at ground floor; abutted at left by the gable of a rubble stone outbuilding having two replacement timber casement windows in smooth rendered surround to east elevation and modern timber door to south gable. The north gable has a window at ground floor right. Setting Situated in a relatively isolated rural setting to the south side of Ballynafoy Road, accessed via a narrow laneway to rear of house leading to farmyard with a range of farm buildings. Surrounded to all sides by farmland and bounded by mature trees and hedgerow. Variety of traditional outbuildings to concrete farmyard including a rendered stable block with pitched slate roof and timber-sheeted doors, some with cast-iron hinges. Rubble-stone two and single-storey outbuildings to southeast and south of yard all of traditional construction with pitched slate roofs; two-storey L-shaped rubble stone barn to south has set of external steps and two segmental-headed carriage-arch openings; replacement timber doors. Roof: Natural slate to return and rear slope of main block - front slope is fibre cement Walling: Roughcast render Windows: Timber-framed sash and replacement timber casements RWG: uPVC