Loughbrickland House, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

Loughbrickland House is a two-storey five-bay detached country house with attached farmyard, located on the east side of Scarva Street in Loughbrickland. The main building dates to around 1785, with a northwest extension of 1826 designed by Thomas Duff and a further southeast extension of 1869.

The house is L-shaped in plan. The principal elevation faces southwest and is almost symmetrically arranged. The central three bays feature a projecting porch at ground level. To the left stands a full-height canted bay window (1826) with windows to each facet at both floors. To the right, a gabled bay encompasses a full-height bowed bay (1869) with three windows to each floor. At the rear, the building has a double return abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension. To the southeast, a two-storey projecting box bay is abutted by a conservatory.

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue-black angled ridge tiles, simple bargeboards, and painted smooth render chimneysstacks with moulded caps and tall terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on an ovolo moulded eaves course. The walls are roughcast render on a smooth rendered plinth, with a string course between floors at the gabled bay. The entrance porch is painted smooth render.

Windows throughout are timber sliding sash, predominantly 2/2 on the first floor and 1/1 on the ground floor, with projecting stone sills. The entrance porch is flanked by a single tripartite window comprising a central 2/2 window flanked by narrow 1/1 windows. The entrance door itself is a six-panelled bolection moulded timber door in a chamfered and moulded recess with brass knob, set on a masonry plinth with corner pilasters surmounted by entablature and corniced parapet. Round-arched windows with glazing bars flank the entrance. Access is via two bull-nosed steps.

The northwest elevation features a 3/3 window to the left at first floor. The rear northeast elevation includes a 6/3 window to the first floor right, with two timber casement windows at different levels to the first floor and a timber casement window plus modern lean-to extension at ground floor right. The northwest elevation of the return has two windows to each floor, with a diminutive window where the section is partially recessed to the right. The southeast elevation of the return features two timber casement windows to the first floor and ground floor right, and a 2/2 window to the ground floor left. The southeast elevation has a gabled breakfront to the centre flanked by 1/1 windows at both floors.

The house sits on a large site surrounded by mature trees with views over farmland. A long tarmacadam lane leads to a gravelled courtyard at the rear, accessed via a rubble stone elliptical arch. The rear courtyard is partially cobbled and surrounded by various renovated rubble stone outbuildings with red-brick dressings, now used as holiday lets. To the north is a second yard accessed via round rubble stone piers with masonry caps supporting modern metal gates, enclosed by a converted coach house to the south and a double-height barn to the west. To the northeast, a carriage arch containing metal gates provides access to the walled garden to the east. The southern boundary is marked by a roughcast rendered wall with four square gate piers with pointed caps supporting cast-iron gates. At the east side of the entrance stands a single-storey gate lodge, which appears to have been extensively remodelled.