Bovenett House, 26 Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

An asymmetrical four-bay two-storey-with-attic early eighteenth century detached house, located to the west of Scarva Road in the centre of Loughbrickland. Rectangular plan with L-shaped two-storey projecting bay to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks with tall terracotta pots (that to south is a replacement) and three decorative pinnacles on plinths to front. Cast-iron ogee gutters on ovolo moulded eaves course with uPVC rainwater pipes. Walling is roughcast render on a smooth rendered plinth. Windows are replacement timber sliding sash (mainly 4/4) with exposed boxes and projecting sills; narrow 4/4 sidelight windows flanking entrance door. The principal elevation faces north-east and is asymmetrically arranged, having six aligned windows to first and ground floor (windows to far left are more widely spaced). Timber raised-and-fielded six-panel door with brass door furniture slightly off-centre, flanked by sidelights and accessed via three granite steps. The south-east gabled has a diminutive window to left at attic; 6/6 window to ground floor centre. The rear (south-west) elevation is abutted to centre by the two-storey L-shaped projecting catslide bay. Window to ground and first floor left. To right, first floor has a paired 6/6 window and a 4/4 window; ground floor has a paired 6/6 window and a half-panelled timber door with side-light. The projecting bay has a 9/9 window and diminutive 2/2 window to recessed bay at left; right bay with 4/4 window to ground and first floor; all cheeks are blank. The north-west gable has a diminutive window to right at attic. Setting East-facing onto to Scarva Street, bounded to street by roughcast rendered wall with stone caps. Tall roughcast-rendered gate piers with pointed caps supporting cast-iron latch gate. Lawned to front with water pump and paved pathway to entrance door. Wing wall to south with round-headed arch opening containing metal gate; elliptical-arch opening to south giving vehicular access to rear tarmacadamed yard. To far south is a walled garden, enclosed by a roughcast rendered wall and accessed via a round-arch opening from the central yard. To west is a linear range of single-storey smooth rendered slated outbuildings (abutting gable of neighbouring cottage (HB17/03/009). To far west is a two-storey rubble stone former coach house with red-brick dressings to a variety of openings (now boarded) including a carriage-arch entry with timber-sheeted door. Coach house bounded to road to north by rubble stone wall. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron / uPVC