Lenaderg House, 151 Lurgan Road, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4NP

Lenaderg House is a symmetrical two-storey country house built circa 1780, located on the east side of Lurgan Road in Banbridge. The building is L-shaped in plan, comprising a main three-bay block with a two-storey side wing to the northeast and a two-storey gabled porch to the front (added later).

The roof is hipped with leaded ridges and hips, and features a variety of roughcast rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. The walling is roughcast render over a smooth render plinth. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods sit on slightly projecting eaves. Windows throughout are timber sliding sash with 6/6 panes in moulded architraves with projecting stone sills, except where otherwise detailed.

The principal southeast elevation is symmetrically arranged around the central two-storey gabled porch. Two windows flank the porch at each floor. The porch itself features flat-headed recesses on all faces at each floor level, paired round-arched 1/1 windows to the first floor, and a four-panelled entrance door with brass furniture in a moulded lugged architrave, accessed by two bull-nosed stone steps. Round-arched 1/1 windows appear to the first floor of each cheek, with 1/1 windows to the ground floor cheeks. The porch has a corbel course between floors and above the first-floor windows.

The southwest elevation displays two windows at each floor and a tall central wall-headed chimney. The rear abutment has two widely spaced paired multi-paned windows to the ground floor with two directly above. This section is abutted at the re-entrant angle by a two-storey flat-roofed sanitary extension containing two 1/1 windows to the left and a diminutive window to the right on the northwest elevation, with a 6/6 window at first-floor level on the southwest elevation.

The northwest rear elevation of the return features two first-floor windows (the right one being 2/2 panes), and is abutted to the left by a single-storey hipped-roofed extension. The northeast elevation is abutted at centre by the two-storey side wing. To the right is a 2/2 window to first floor and two replacement uPVC windows to ground floor; to the left are a 6/6 first-floor window and a panelled-and-glazed timber door to ground floor. A corner bay at the re-entrant angle contains a 6/6 window to each floor.

The two-storey northeast wing features four 6/6 windows to the first floor and four sets of glazed double-leaf doors with square-headed overlights to the ground floor (the left and third-from-right accessed by three bull-nosed steps). The northeast gable is blank. The northwest elevation of the wing has three 6/6 windows to first floor (the left more widely spaced), a paired glass panel door with overlight to the left at ground level, two 6/6 windows and a timber-sheeted door with brass furniture to the right.

The house sits on a large site surrounded by mature trees, accessed by a gravelled lane to the southwest leading to a gravelled courtyard at the rear. The walled garden is lawned with a modern tennis court at the northwest end. The road boundary comprises a rubble stone wall, mature trees and hedgerow. A curved entrance features decorative cast-iron railings on a painted plinth wall with slender metal piers supporting original gates.

To the rear stands a refurbished two-storey rubble stone barn with hipped roof, smooth rendered quoins and red-brick dressings. It has three replacement uPVC windows to the first floor, timber-sheeted doors with glazed overlights in stone surrounds to left and right at ground floor, and a carriage-arch at centre with large timber-sheeted doors. Beyond the barn sits a single-storey converted summer house with conservatory overlooking the garden to the east.