Monteith, 10 Monteith Road, Annaclone, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5AT

Monteith is a good quality one and a half storey house of late Georgian date, built between 1800 and 1819. It likely served as a mill manager's house, situated 5 miles south-east of Banbridge in a mature landscape containing several outbuildings and a former dwelling.

The house is T-shaped, with its front elevation facing west. It is approached via a dog-legged drive from the road, with wrought iron gates set between circular rendered pillars marking the entrance to the property.

The front elevation is symmetrical. At its centre is an 8-panelled door with flush-set panels, flanked by three-quarter length glazed lights and a spoked segmental fanlight above. The door jambs are reeded and the entire arrangement sits within a moulded projecting classical surround. On either side is a 6/6 timber sliding sash window, each set in a moulded projecting surround with a central keystone. The elevation features a projecting plinth and eaves with alternating quoins, finished in hard roughcast render. To the left of the door stands a simple circular field stone pillar with a pedestrian wrought iron gate. An ogee cast iron gutter runs along the front, though there are no downpipes; rainwater may be connected along the north elevation to a water tank at the rear. The return has half round cast iron guttering and downpipes.

The north gable is rendered like the front with two openings on the first floor: one 6/6 and one 1/1 timber sliding sash window, both without surrounds. The south gable is similarly rendered but features a concrete block single storey lean-to shed, now roofless, with evidence of a former small conservatory. A single first floor window opening has been boarded over. The roof is natural blue and black slate with a blue terracotta ridge tile and rendered chimney stacks at each gable, with raised skews at the verges.

The rear elevation contains a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window on the ground floor to the south of the return. The return itself is rectangular, roughcast rendered with a pitched natural slate roof and a rendered chimney stack set in from the gable. Its south elevation features a 4-panelled timber door on the ground floor with a 6/6 timber sliding sash window beside it, and two 4/4 timber sliding sash windows on the first floor. The east gable is plain rendered with a vertically sheeted timber door at first floor level, which the current owner indicates gives access to a small workshop not connected to the main house. On the north side of the return is a small rendered projection supporting a cast iron water tank.

The site contains numerous other buildings. To the south is a small brick and stone chicken house in poor condition. To the south-west is a former potato house, stable and pig house, partly single and partly two storey, with rendered rubble stone walls and a pitched natural slate roof. At the roadside to the west is a single storey stone dwelling, rendered, with a pitched natural slate roof and storage underneath. To the south-east are several agricultural outbuildings including roofless stone byres and pig houses, a barrel vaulted silo and a substantial stone gabled barn with red brick dressings to its openings and a natural slate roof.

Historical records show a building on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1838 and the second of 1861 in the same size, position and orientation as the current house, but without the return. The return appears on the third OS map of 1931. The first valuation records a house measuring 42 feet 9 inches by 26 feet and 14 feet 6 inches high, likely the same building. The render and door and window surround mouldings are cement-based and were probably added in the later nineteenth century, suggesting the original appearance was less formal.

The first valuation also records a corn mill (18 feet by 18 feet by 16 feet high) and two corn kilns (39 feet 6 inches by 20 feet by 8 feet 6 inches and 39 feet 6 inches by 19 feet 6 inches by 12 feet high) on the site. The corn mill, situated across the road and since converted to a dwelling, had a 15 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches overshot wheel with a good supply of water in winter. Offices measuring 41 feet by 21 feet by 6 feet 6 inches also stood on the site. The potato house and stable may originally have been one of these corn kilns.

In 1838 the house and mill complex were owned by the Marquis of Downshire and leased to Abel McClelland. In 1861 the house was leased to Martha McClelland. By 1903 it was leased to Mr Mulligan, and by 1928 it had passed into the ownership of Rachel Jelly, a relation of the current owner.

The listing extends to the house, gates and gate piers. The building is noted as being of industrial archaeological interest as well as being a monument, with architectural interest in its style, proportion, ornamentation and plan form. A Building Preservation Notice was issued on 23 August 2005.