Solitude, Castlewellan Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4AX

A two-storey over basement with attic three-bay Victorian house c.1864; square plan form with rear abutments. Located off the Castlewellan Road at the end of a long straight driveway running parallel with adjacent former mill buildings. Hipped natural slate roof with clay hip and ridge tiles; cast-iron ogee moulded rainwater goods; smooth rendered chimney stacks with moulded cornice; pitched roof dormer with timber barge boards and timber finial. Ruled-and-lined painted rendered walling; rusticated long-and-short quoins. 2/2 segmental-arched timber sliding sash windows with vertical glazing bars; painted masonry cills. Four raised-and-pointed panelled timber door with brass ironmongery; moulded timber surrounds; leaded coloured over and side lights with aprons set into segmental-arched opening flanked by modern wall mounted lamps; accessed by masonry steps with perron spanning over basement trench with solid masonry balustrade terminated with robust plain piers. The principal elevation faces north and is symmetrically arranged. Centrally positioned front door flanked by single windows to either side; three slightly diminished in height first floor windows directly over ground floor openings; single further diminished windows to the right and left bay at basement level; full width basement trench surmounted by replacement railing. Dormer window centrally positioned on roof pitch. The left (east) elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Two-storey canted bay to the left bay comprising a central door at basement level flanked by narrow windows to the side cheeks; ground floor windows over. The right bay comprises two basement windows, narrow left window. Single ground floor uPVC replacement window. Two blank windows at first floor level. The rear (south) elevation is asymmetrically arranged. The right bay comprises single windows all floors. Hipped shallow return left of centre comprised varying sized windows. Single first floor window to left bay. Single-storey lean-to abutment to basement level left bay, the left cheek further abutted by a single storey pitched roof outbuilding. The right (west) elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Two enlarged uPVC windows at basement level. Three uniformly arranged windows at ground floor with blank windows directly over at first floor level. Setting The house is access by cement rendered piers with masonry caps; replacement railings and gates. The drive is lined with lawns either side; a further large lawn addressing the principal elevation. Small modern garage located east of the house with further garages to the rear. The River Bann bounds the site to the east. Rubble masonry wall to the south with two-storey red-brick terrace beyond. Three-storey rubble masonry former mill building to the north with associated mill race. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron