99 Castlevennon Road, Katesbridge, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3SD

A single-storey vernacular hearth-lobby dwelling pre-dating 1833 with twentieth century modifications. Rectangular plan form with detached outbuildings in a half-courtyard arrangement. Located at the end of a lane to the east of Castlevennon Road, approximately 4 miles east of Banbridge. Pitched corrugated asbestos roof with plain ridging and cement skews; metal rainwater goods comprising half-circle gutters; brick chimneys with corbelled upper courses, with vestiges of roughcast render. Roughcast cement rendered walling. Replacement steel-framed casement windows with concrete cills (unless otherwise stated). Replacement mid-twentieth century timber front door with oval glazed panel and associated mouldings; set into gabled windbreaker porch with corrugated roofing; dry-dashed walling with plaster banding. The asymmetrical east facing principal elevation is five openings wide. Entrance porch located left of centre flanked by windows. Further right is a 2/2 timber sliding-sash window with horizontal glazing bars beyond which is a projecting flat-roofed toilet surmounted by water tank. Window to far right. The left gable is blank; apex chimney; plinth projected by approximately 300mm; partially exposed rubble masonry walling to the left (failing render). Asymmetrical rear elevation with windows centre and right; 2/2 timber sliding sash window with vertical glazing bar to the left. Far left bay set back with single window. The right gable is blank; abutted by a single-storey rubble masonry outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof; sawn timber roof structure. Setting Traditional complex of farm buildings set out in a half-courtyard arrangement, located at the end of a long lane set in a rural landscape not visible from the road. Single and two-storey outbuildings arranged perpendicular to the east of the dwelling; lime render over rubble masonry walls with natural slate roofs and sawn timber roof structures; timber sheeted doors and a variety of window openings and ventilation-apertures. The south building has an upper deck carried by timber post and beam structure accessed by masonry/concrete steps to west gable. Evidence of previous abutments to both buildings and vestiges of a rubble masonry wall enclosing the site to east. Roofing: Thatch under corrugated-asbestos Walling: roughcast Windows: Steel RWG: Metal