Glenbanna House, 14 The Point Road, Gilford, Craigavon, Co. Down, BT63 6EA

Glenbanna House is a symmetrical three-bay one-and-a-half-storey dormered double-pile house built around 1850 on the site of an earlier dwelling. It stands on the east side of The Point Road in Lawrencetown, Gilford.

The house comprises an L-shaped plan of two adjoining rectangular blocks with single-storey canted bays to the north and a single-storey flat-roof extension to the rear. The pitched natural slate roof is M-profile with terracotta ridge tiles and two centred smooth rendered chimneystacks. The gables feature fretted bargeboards and finials. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on projecting eaves with decorative trefoil fascia and bargeboards. The walls are roughcast render on a chamfered plinth with quoins. Windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash in moulded architrave throughout unless otherwise stated.

The principal north-facing elevation is three openings wide to the first floor. The canted bays flank a central original panelled-and-glazed timber entrance door with side-lights having panelled timber aprons. This is accessed by a single stone step and fronted by an open timber portico with square piers and trefoil spandrels, surmounted by a quatrefoil lattice parapet. Three wall-head dormers with decorative bargeboards and finials light the first floor.

The east elevation comprises two gabled bays. The left bay is slightly wider and contains two 6/6 windows to the first floor and two 1/1 windows to the ground floor. The right bay has a 1/1 window at first floor and a panelled-and-glazed double-leaf timber door with transom light, accessed by two bull-nosed steps and set in a moulded architrave.

The south (rear) elevation is partially concealed. Three diminutive timber casement windows are irregularly arranged to the first floor. A single-storey flat-roof return abutts at the left, with three 1/1 windows to its west elevation. A red-brick and timber greenhouse abuts this return to the south.

The west elevation comprises two gabled bays. The right bay is set back and contains two 6/6 windows to the first floor, an enlarged replacement window to the ground floor left, and a 1/1 window to the ground floor right. The left bay (slightly narrower) has a 1/1 window to the first floor and a panelled-and-glazed double-leaf timber door with transom light, accessed by two bull-nosed steps and set in a moulded architrave.

The house sits on a large mature site opposite St Patrick's Catholic Church and south of the Point Bridge at The Point Road. Access is via a long tarmacadamed avenue lined with giant beech trees. Formal gardens to the west are accessed via a round-arched cast-iron gate, with wild meadow beyond. To the east of the house are stone steps and a cast-iron round-arched gate leading to a mature garden. The boundary to the lane to the west comprises a rubble stone wall with curved entrance walls having castellated gate piers supporting replacement metal gates. The lane continues east past a modern single storey garage and sweeps south to an equestrian courtyard.

West of the courtyard entrance stands a two-storey stone barn with brick surrounds to openings, top-hung timber casement windows and slate roof. The entrance pillars are modern with cast busts of horses. The stables, outbuildings and carriage houses are modern single-storey construction with monopitch corrugated fibre cement roofs and painted rendered walls, with the exception of a second stone barn to the west.