Parkrow House, 12 Parkrow Road, Dromore, Co Down, BT25 1DP

Parkrow House

Parkrow House is a detached, symmetrical three-bay two-storey house with attic, built around 1780, rendered in rough-cast. It is flanked by a pair of single-storey bowed pavilions to either side and a canted two-storey return with attic, which was rebuilt around 1990. The building is T-shaped in plan, facing west, and sits on the south side of Parkrow Road in Dromore.

The main house has a pitched natural slate roof, reroofed around 1975, with black clay ridge tiles and tall rendered profiled chimneystacks rising from either gable end. Moulded cast-iron guttering is supported in ogee corbels to a moulded eaves course, with matching cast-iron downpipes. The return features a hipped natural slate roof with rolled lead hips and ridges, and a pair of barrel-headed dormer windows. The return is finished with smooth cement render, while the main house retains rough-cast rendering.

Window openings are square-headed with smooth render surrounds and cut stone sills. All windows are replacement timber sashes with exposed sash boxes. The symmetrical front elevation is five windows wide. The focal point is a central three-centred-arched door opening with a replacement tripartite timber doorcase featuring a spider-web fanlight, tracery sidelights, and a raised-and-fielded timber panelled door. This opens onto a stone-flagged front area.

The north pavilion is an original structure, while the south pavilion was rebuilt around 1990. Both have hipped natural slate roofs with rolled lead hips and ridges. Semi-conical slate roofs extend to the curved bay windows on the west side. Each multi-pane timber curved bay window is a replacement replicating the original design. The north pavilion is abutted by a further single-bay single-storey accretion with a replacement timber Wyatt window.

The rear elevation of the main house is abutted by a multi-bay two-storey return featuring 6/6 timber sash windows at first floor level and 8/8 timber sash windows at ground floor level. The south gable is abutted by the rebuilt south pavilion. Three pairs of multi-pane timber French doors to this pavilion are framed with fluted Doric pilasters and entablature. These doors open onto a raised stone-flagged platform with steps.

Extensive landscaped gardens extend to the west and south. The rear yard is gravel, enclosed by rubblestone walls. A range of single-storey rendered outbuildings, built around 1950, stands to the north. A further single-storey rubblestone outbuilding with a pitched corrugated iron roof and vertically-sheeted timber vehicular doors is attached to the east. The south of the yard is enclosed by a single range of single-storey rubblestone outbuildings with a split in level and corrugated iron roofs, fitted with replacement sheeted timber stable doors.

A rear gravel drive extends from the yard to the north, opening onto the road via a pair of wrought-iron gates and sweeping rendered walls. A gravel front area within the landscaped gardens continues northwest as a gravel front drive opening onto the road via a pair of rebuilt sweeping stone walls with rendered piers and wrought-iron gates.