Mountain View, 11 Ballybrick Road, Katesbridge, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5QP

A symmetrical two-storey with attic three-bay farm house dating from c.1850. Rectangular plan form with rear return. Located to off the Ballybrick Road approximately 3 miles north of Rathfriland. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; smooth rendered gable chimneystacks with corbelled cap; clay pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebble-dash walling; smooth rendered plinth. 6/6 timber sliding sash windows with vertical margin panes; no horns; masonry cills. Four panelled front door with bolection mouldings; side-lights with margin panes and panelled aprons; spoked fanlight with hub set into elliptical arched opening. Single storey flat roof porch added c.1970. The principal elevation faces south and is symmetrically arranged. Centrally positioned front door with ground floor with ground floor windows either side, three first floor windows directly over. The left gable is largely blank with exception to a diminished-in-scale attic window slightly left of centre. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Two-storey flat-roofed twentieth century addition located left of centre; timber casement windows to the north elevation; single door to the left cheek. Left of the addition is a single ground floor 3/6 sash window; first floor window directly over. Single raised landing window. Right of the return are two ground floor windows with a single first floor window. The right gable has a single first floor window to the left and a diminished-in-scale attic window slightly right of centre. Setting The house is screened from the road by trees. The site is accessed via modern gates supported from modern boundary walls. On approach the short driveway runs parallel to the front lawn addressing the house. Separate access to the rear concrete yard; wrought-iron gates on granite piers to the east entrance; partial remains to the west. The yard is enclosed to the north by a two-storey pitched natural slate roofed outbuilding; rubble masonry walling built to course; brick elliptical arches; timber floor boards and collar-beam trusses. Single-storey coach house to the east; square plan pyramidal slated roof surmounted by ball finial; rough cast render. Other buildings are smooth cement rendered with corrugated-iron roofing. Beyond the site boundary is a rural landscape setting. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Pebble dash Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron