49 Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey mid-Victorian detached house, built c.1915 to designs by William Wright Larmor and located east of Scarva Street at the junction of Old Newry Road in Loughbrickland. Rectangular plan with two-storey flat-roof extension and projecting porch to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and finials; red-brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting timber-sheeted eaves. Walling is painted smooth render with raised quoins on a chamfered plinth. Windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with horns and projecting painted masonry sills unless otherwise stated. The principal elevation faces south-west and is three openings wide to each floor. To centre at ground floor is a raised-and-fielded four panel timber door with brass door furniture, accessed via a single stone step; surmounted by a square-headed overlight and flanked by panelled pilasters with entassis having entablature and cornice. The north-west elevation has three windows to first floor (that to right is more widely spaced). Two replacement timber casement windows to ground floor left; multi-paned bow window with slated canopy to ground floor right. The north-east (rear) elevation is abutted at right by a two-storey flat-roof extension; window to right of centre at first and ground floor. To left at ground floor is a lean-to canopy over extension with a modern timber-sheeted door to centre, two narrow windows to left and an open porch to right; right cheek abutted by two storey return; left cheek has a timber sheeted door. Two storey extension abutted by a single storey lean-to out-building remainder blank; left cheek has a door to ground floor left, remainder blank; right cheek has half glazed door with square-headed overlight to right with diminutive window over. The south-east elevation is three windows wide to first floor (that to left is more widely spaced). Window to ground floor left and multi-paned bow window with slated canopy to ground floor right. Setting Set on large mature grounds to the east side of Scarva Street at the junction with Old Newry Road in Loughbrickland. Lawned to front with gravelled driveway accessed via roughcast rendered squared piers with caps supporting cast-iron gates. Lawned to front and bounded to road by a roughcast rendered wall with coping stones, mature trees and hedgerow. Bounded to north by modern timber fence. Paved courtyard and modern dwelling to rear; the dwelling shares access with number 49. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron