Glebe House, 25 Banbridge Road, Rathfriland, Co Down, BT34 5PF

Glebe House is a detached, symmetrical three-bay two-storey building over basement, built around 1820. The house faces north and is rendered in rough-cast over rubblestone walling, with painted rusticated quoins to the front elevation and entrance projection only. The hipped roof is covered in natural slate with black clay ridge tiles and replacement rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Metal guttering and plastic downpipes line the rendered eaves course.

The front elevation is symmetrical with a central single-bay two-storey flat-roofed entrance projection. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and uPVC windows punctuate the elevation, with windows diminished in size at first-floor level. The entrance projection features an elliptical-headed recess to the ground floor containing a square-headed window, and to its west cheek is a three-centred arched door opening with a replacement hardwood panelled door and blind panel above, opening onto a granite step (now flush with the bitumac front area).

The rear elevation features a full-height central bowed bay with a semi-conical natural slate roof and lead ridges. A later three-sided canted bay window was inserted around 1920, abutting the bowed bay. The canted bay has a flat concrete roof with a uPVC patio door, an Art Nouveau leaded overlight, and 2/2 timber sash windows to either side, opening onto a flight of concrete steps that bridges the basement area. The rear elevation is symmetrical and sits at an exposed basement level with cobbles lining the basement area and earth embankments to the rear and west side elevations.

The east side elevation has a single large square-headed window opening and a pair of lean-to extensions at basement level with natural slate roofs. The west side elevation features a single window opening to each half-landing on the left.

A rendered quadrant wall abuts the northeast corner of the house, partially obscured by a recently built single-storey rendered structure fronting onto the front yard area.

The property is set on an elevated mature site and is accessed via a long tree-lined bitumac drive on the east side of Banbridge Road. To the east of the house is a small concrete paved yard enclosed to the north by an elliptical-headed rubblestone arched screen with iron gates and applied timber sheeting. An L-plan range of two-storey rubblestone outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs encloses the yard. These outbuildings have rendered chimneystacks, timber sheeted doors, an 8/4 early timber sash window and a 2/2 timber sash window to the north elevation, and steel casement windows with granite sills to the south elevation. External stone steps access the north gable, with a further flight of granite steps to the north elevation of the south range. A modern bungalow has been built to the northwest of the house at the entrance to the front garden.