156 Ballygowan Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3QS

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey detached farmhouse predating 1834 and located south of the Ballygowan Road north of Loughbrickland. L-shaped on plan with two-storey rear return having modern conservatory to re-entrant angle and single-storey flat-roof extension to southwest. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles, masonry verges and rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is pebble-dash with cement rendered quoins and plinth. Windows are 3/6 timber sliding sash to first floor and 6/6 timber sliding sash to ground floor in rendered reveals with slightly projecting sills. The principal elevation faces northeast and is three openings wide to each floor. To centre at ground floor is a six raised-and-fielded panelled entrance door with square-headed overlight, accessed by two bull-nosed stone steps and fronted by a modern stone portico (c.1990). The southeast gable is blank. The southwest (rear) elevation has a 6/6 window to right and left at first floor; abutted to right of centre by a two-storey return, having modern natural slate roofed curved sunroom to re-entrant angle with fully glazed multi-pane walls on low plinth wall incorporating a glazed door to southwest. Gable of two storey return is blank with a chimney stack to apex; left cheek has two casement windows to first floor with a casement window to ground floor right; right cheek has a large multi-pane timber casement window to first floor right of centre with two narrow multi-pane casements to right; abutted at ground floor by a flat-roof extension opening to southwest with a modern timber half-door; modern bay window to right cheek. The northwest gable is blank. Setting Situated on a large elevated site south of Ballygowan Road, bounded to north by mature trees and a timber fence. Large farmyard with modern agricultural buildings to northwest accessed via modern timber-sheeted gates on roughcast gate piers with pointed caps. Garages to southwest Roof: Natural slate Walling: Pebble dash Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron / uPVC