174 Huntly Road, Milltown, Banbridge, County Down, BT32 3BJ

Small, unusual, split-level ‘two-storey’ house of c.1840-50, built as part of a short terrace of three similar but non-identical dwellings, for employees of the (now demolished) near by mill. The terrace is built into sloping ground to the west side of Huntly Road, set back from the line of a longer terrace to the east. To the immediate W there is a now derelict former schoolhouse, which was latterly used as a hall. All of the houses in the terrace are vacant and in a state of disrepair. The terrace is brick-built, but much of the façade is now covered in plant growth or obscured by bushes. No.74 lies to the west end of the terrace and is one of the two smaller properties [no.72 being the other]. The asymmetrical single-storey front elevation faces roughly N. To the left is the entrance, which has been boarded up. To the right is a window, which appears to have a two over two timber sash frame. This window is largely obscured by bushes. The two-storey W gable could not be seen due to the proximity of trees and busthes. Attached to the ground floor of the gable there is a single-storey brick-built projection, now largely smothered by plant growth and badly dilapidated. To the S face there is a doorway and two window openings, with the remains of the flat-panel timber door to the doorway, and what appear to have been sash frames to the windows. There is a further smaller single-storey brick-built projection attached to the gable. This projection is flush with the rear façade of the terrace and contains the rear doorway to the property to its S face. This dooway contains a door which appears to have been originally part-glazed but which has subsequently been patched with boards. To the W face of the lean-to there is a small window with recent timber frame. [The surveyors could only see this window from the interior of the building.] To the ground floor of the (two-storey) the S elevation there are two windows with the dilapidated remains of six over six timber sash frames. To the first floor there are two similar smaller windows (three over six). The gabled roof is slated and has clay ridge tiles. There is a brick chimneystack to the W end of the ridge, which is now largely smothered in plant growth The rainwater goods are a mixture of original cast-iron and recent replacement PVC-u.