Fowlersbridge House, 109 Dromara Road, Ballyroney, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5EY

Fowlersbridge House is a detached, symmetrical three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1850, situated on the south side of Dromara Road on a slightly elevated site near Ballyroney.

The main house features a pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and a pair of rebuilt redbrick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots rising from either gable end. The walls are painted with ruled-and-lined render, a rendered plinth course, and rusticated rendered quoins. The symmetrical front elevation is dominated by three bays with square-headed window openings containing replacement 6/6 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes and ogee horns, painted masonry sills, and a single-storey front entrance porch. This porch has a flat roof concealed behind a parapet wall with a deep moulded cornice and frieze, and features square-headed window and door openings with stop-chamfered reveals, replacement single-pane timber sash windows, and a replacement timber panelled door opening onto a granite step and platform.

The east gable has a single irregularly placed window opening at each level: a replacement single-pane timber sash window to the first floor and a replacement timber casement window to the ground floor. The rear elevation is abutted by a full-height gabled return with an oculus to the apex and unpainted rendered walling, featuring a variety of replacement single-pane timber sash and timber casement windows and a replacement timber door. A pair of lean-to extensions with natural slate roofs are attached to the re-entrant angle on the east and west sides.

The plan is irregular and the building includes a two-storey gabled return with lean-to extensions. Plastic guttering replaces the rendered eaves course, with original cast-iron downpipes retained only to the return.

The house stands set back on a slightly elevated site with enclosed front and west gardens bounded by rubblestone walls and hedging. A cast-iron pedestrian gate on masonry piers with a sweeping rendered wall provides access. A short gravel drive to the east opens into a rear yard enclosed by two-storey rendered outbuildings. The eastern boundary of the yard features a gable-fronted two-storey rendered outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof, replacement rainwater goods, square-headed window and door openings with steel casement windows and steel sliding doors. The south boundary is enclosed by a multi-bay two-storey rubblestone outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof, replacement rainwater goods, coursed rubblestone walls with squared quoins, square-headed window and door openings with stone lintels, and sheeted timber doors with iron bars to the windows. An external flight of concrete steps is attached to the north elevation, and a later lean-to extension abuts the south elevation of this outbuilding.