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

Monteith is a small one and a half storey late Georgian house located 5 miles south-east of Banbridge, which may originally have served as a mill manager's house. The building stands within a mature site containing several outbuildings and a former dwelling.

The house is T-shaped with its front elevation facing west. Access from the road is via a dog-legged drive, with wrought iron gates and circular rendered pillars marking the entrance to the house itself.

The west front elevation is symmetrical and features a central 8-panelled door with panels set flush with the framing, flanked by three-quarter length glazed lights and a spoked segmental fanlight above. The door jambs are reeded and the entire arrangement is set within a moulded projecting classical surround. To either side is a 6/6 timber sliding sash window, also set in a moulded projecting surround with a central keystone. The elevation displays a projecting plinth and eaves with alternating quoins, and is finished in hard roughcast render. To the left stands a simple circular fieldstone pillar with a pedestrian wrought iron gate. An ogee cast iron gutter runs across the front with 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 as the front with two openings on the first floor: a 6/6 timber sliding sash window and a 1/1 window. All other openings lack surrounds. The south gable is rendered as the front but includes a concrete block single storey lean-to shed, now roofless, which shows evidence of a small conservatory once attached. A single first floor window opening here is boarded over. The roof is covered in natural blue and black slate with a blue terracotta ridge tile, and rendered chimney stacks sit at each gable with raised skew verges.

The rear elevation features 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. The south elevation of the return has 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 connects via a first floor bridge to higher ground at the rear and provides access to a small workshop not accessible from the main house.

A small rendered projection on the north side of the return supports a cast iron water tank.

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