Beechfield, 124 Grovehill Road, Derrydrummuck, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5AB

Beechfield is a detached asymmetrical three-bay two-storey house with attic, built around 1780, rendered in cement with ruled-and-lined finish. It was extended and refurbished around 1890. The house is L-shaped in plan, facing south, with a single-bay two-storey rear return. It sits on an elevated mature site north of Grovehill Road, with extensive gardens and a rear yard enclosed by single and two-storey rubblestone outbuildings. Access is via a long gravel avenue to the west.

The roof is hipped with natural slate and roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, with rolled lead hip ridges. Replacement moulded metal guttering and downpipes are fitted to the rendered eaves course. The east return has a flat felt roof. Three rendered profiled chimneysstacks with decorative clay pots are present, plus a further slender rendered stack to the flat-roofed return.

The south front elevation is four windows wide. It features square-headed window openings with stop-chamfered surrounds, granite sills and 2/2 timber sash windows. The ground floor windows have decorative horns and some cylinder glass survives. An off-centre flat-roofed projecting entrance porch projects from the front, with plastic guttering to a drip cornice and plain frieze. Slender square-headed window openings with uPVC windows flank either side of the porch. The entrance door has a concave moulded surround, a replacement hardwood panelled door, and is flanked by slender round-headed recessed panels. The door opens onto a granite platform and step to the front gravel parking area.

The west side elevation is three windows wide, with two slender single-pane timber sash windows to the first floor and an enlarged ground floor window opening with uPVC glazing.

The rear elevation is abutted by full-height projections to the right and left of centre. Various window openings are present, generally 2/2 timber sash windows. Between the two rear projections is a raised concrete platform with a bipartite timber sash window at ground floor level. A square-headed door opening to the west projection has a replacement hardwood glazed door opening onto two concrete steps. The west projection is itself abutted by a single-storey rubblestone structure with pitched natural slate roof, brick chimneystack with decorative clay pot, plastic guttering, and brick-lined openings containing a diminutive four-pane window and original timber sheeted doors. The east side elevation has a single window opening at ground floor level.

The site is elevated with mature trees and extensive landscaped gardens to the south and west, overlooking Grovehill Road. The rear yard is concrete paved and enclosed by rubblestone outbuildings running north-south. To the west is a single-storey rubblestone range with pitched natural slate roof, five openings and small animal pens enclosed by rubblestone walls with wrought-iron gates. To the north of the yard is a diminutive lofted rubblestone outbuilding with central gabled loading bay, pitched natural slate roof and steel doors. The east of the yard is bounded by a multi-bay two-storey rubblestone outbuilding with pitched slate roof and redbrick-lined openings at the northern end with replacement sheeted timber doors. The southern end of this range is derelict with a collapsed roof, external stone steps, original timber sheeted doors, some timber casement windows and wrought-iron gates. To the south of the yard is a further detached lime-rendered rubblestone outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and double-leaf timber sheeted vehicular doors, forming the boundary to the front garden. The yard opens into an avenue to the north with a further detached single-storey rubblestone outbuilding in separate ownership. The avenue continues on a gentle decline to the west along the west garden. A pair of iron gates on cut stone piers with matching iron railings provides access to the front of the house from the west garden.