Lisnabrague House, 40 Bann Road, Poyntzpass, Co Down, BT63 6NR

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey detached farmhouse with outbuildings, built c.1840 and incorporating as a rear return an earlier vernacular structure (pre 1834). Located north of Bann Road near Loughbrickland. Rectangular plan with elongated single-storey extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with raised masonry verges and replacement chimneystacks to each gable. Cast-iron half round rainwater goods on projecting eaves course with cast-iron hopper. Walling is painted smooth render (roughcast render to return). Windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash and projecting granite sills. The principal elevation faces south-east and is three openings wide to each floor. To centre at ground floor is a four-panelled timber door in elliptical-arched recess flanked by fluted Ionic columns and surmounted by a timber spider-web fanlight. The south-west gable has a 6/6 window to left at ground floor. The north-west (rear) elevation was partially concealed. Abutted left of centre by a single-storey return (earlier vernacular structure (pre 1834)); window to first and ground floor left. The return has a modern timber casement window to either side of a slightly projecting porch containing a modern panelled-and-glazed timber door and side light. To right is access to a store room and timber-sheeted double-leaf doors to a garage. Larger abutment at far right with a timber-sheeted door. The north-east gable is blank. Setting: Visible from the main road and accessed via a laneway to east with a single slender granite gate pier. The lane leads to a rear yard with a variety of outbuildings including a two-storey rubble stone barn to north with timber-sheeted openings. Raised lawned garden to front with overgrown shrubbery and mature trees; enclosed by an iron pedestrian gate to north-east of house, a roughcast render wall with saddleback coping stones and simple granite piers with pointed caps support original metal gates to south. Farmland to south bounded by mature hedgerow and trees. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron