Aghaderg Lodge, 41 Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey detached house, predating 1833 and in use as a manse from 1880. Located east of Scarva Street in the centre of Loughbrickland village. Rectangular on plan with two-storey return, two-storey extension and single-storey flat-roof addition to rear; single-storey modern extension to south. Hipped natural slate roof with leaded ridge and hips; rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is painted ruled-and-lined render. Windows are tripartite double-hung timber sliding sash with projecting granite sills unless otherwise stated. The principal elevation faces south-west and is three openings wide to each floor. To centre at ground floor is a six raised-and-pointed panelled timber door with brass door furniture surmounted by a cast-iron spider-web fanlight; fronted by a lattice porch with gabled roof. The north-west gable has a 2/2 timber casement window to first floor left. The north-east (rear) elevation is abutted at left by the two-storey return (likely early part of the house), with two-storey flat-roof extension to re-entrant angle; abutted to north by the single-storey flat-roof addition. Return has a pitched roof and clipped verges with a rendered chimneystack to gable; 1/1 paired window to first floor at gable; north elevation with window at first and ground floor. South elevation has uPVC doors to right and a canted bay window to left. Two-storey extension is three windows wide to first floor; abutted at right by the single-storey addition with timber casement window and a modern panelled-and-glazed timber door. The south-east gable has a timber casement window to first floor left; abutted at ground floor by the modern extension. Setting Set back from the road behind roughcast rendered boundary wall and piers with masonry caps. Directly to front of house is a low smooth rendered wall with masonry coping topped by metal railings; to centre are two slender granite gate piers with pointed caps supporting a wrought iron gate. To north-west is vehicular access to rear yard via electronic cast-iron gates (original) on smooth rendered gate piers with pointed caps. Further to the north-west is No. 47 Scarva Street which was previously the gatelodge to Aghaderg Lodge but is now much altered and separated from the site. Rear yard has garage to north and stable block to southeast; enclosed to east by rubble stone wall with modern farm gate leading to paddock (former kitchen garden). Paved and shrubbed to front of house with walled garden to south accessed via a gothic arch with metal latch gate (also to east wall leading to paddock). Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron