Old Ballydown Manse, 31 Old Manse Road, Banbridge, Co Down BT32 4JJ

An asymmetrical detached two-storey three-bay former manse, built c.1840 and located in the townland of Tullyear, located approximately 2.7Km E of Banbridge town centre, in the townland of Tullyear. Pitched natural slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks and profiled rainwater goods on corbelled eaves course. Ruled-and-lined rendered walling over a slightly projecting plinth, with quoins and platband to first floor cill level. Windows are single-glazed 6/6 timber sashes with horns in moulded architrave surrounds, with painted masonry cills. Asymmetrical front façade (SW) five openings wide, arranged about central square-headed door with moulded canopy on console brackets; eight panelled timber door with brass door furniture and transom light, opening onto a masonry step. Left gable (NW) has a single window to ground floor left, and is abutted at extreme right by a roughcast rendered wall with square piers supporting a wrought iron pedestrian gate. Single storey return to left side with no openings. Rear elevation (NE) has irregular arrangement of window openings all with replacement uPVC windows. Abutted at left by a single-storey flat-roofed extension and to right side by a small return with monopitch natural (replacement) slated roof. Right gable (SE) is blank; abutted by a roughcast wall supporting a pair of monolithic granite piers with wrought iron field gate giving access to rear yard. Flat-roofed extension to right side, no windows. Setting Rural setting close to Banbridge, with rear yard enclosed by two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with brick dressings and slated roof. Gravel forecourt and and mature shrubs to garden accessed via wrought iron gates and roughdashed curved walled entrance with square plan pillars Materials: Roof: Natural slate Walling: ruled-and-lined painted render Windows: Timber sliding sash, single-glazed & uPVC to rear RWG: metal