Island House, 5 Tullymore Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT35 6QP

Island House is a two-storey three-bay farmhouse built before 1834, located on the west side of Tullymore Road approximately 7 miles south of Banbridge. The building has a rectangular plan form with a two-storey return, a twentieth-century porch, and various outbuildings of different dates.

The main house has a pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The chimneys are ruled-and-lined rendered with corbelled upper courses and plain clay pots. The walls are roughcast rendered with projected long-and-short quoins and a smooth rendered projecting plinth. Windows throughout are predominantly 1/1 double-glazed sliding sash windows with moulded horns, set into smooth rendered slightly projecting reveals with masonry cills.

The front entrance features a twentieth-century gabled porch with hipped back to the main building, artificial slate roofing, and scalloped timber bargeboards with exposed timber rafter tails. The porch has smooth rendered walling with a projected plinth and round-arched 1/1 sliding sash windows to either cheek. The main door is a bolection moulded raised-and-chamfered four-panelled timber door with muntin bead and brass ironmongery, set into an elliptical-arched opening with decorative leaded over-light and side-lights with apron panels. The door-case is set into a square-headed recess with a replacement step.

The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged with the entrance porch centrally positioned, flanked by single windows, with three first-floor windows directly above the ground floor openings. The left south gable is symmetrically arranged with two ground-floor windows and an apex chimney. The rear west elevation is asymmetrically arranged, comprising a two-storey return right of centre with a further abutment. A subservient gabled return with lower eaves and ridge level has a red brick chimneystack with moulded cornice and replacement uPVC windows throughout. The return comprises a blank gable with an apex chimney; the right cheek has two equally spaced ground-floor windows with two windows directly above at first floor; the left cheek has a central first-floor window with a bipartite window to the ground floor right, and a single-storey twentieth-century gabled rear porch with natural slate roofing abutted to the left. The rear porch comprises a modern half-glazed timber door with sidelight to the gable. The right cheek has a metal window, and the left cheek abuts the main block. The right north gable is asymmetrically arranged with a single first-floor window to the right and an apex chimney.

The property sits in a rural setting adjacent to the main road. A small garden addresses the front of the farmhouse, bounded by wrought-iron railing with castings and a matching pedestrian gate.

Historic lime render covers rubble masonry outbuildings to the rear. Two earlier nineteenth-century gable-ended outbuildings run parallel north of the house; the left outbuilding is extended to the west with a single-storey lean-to abutment, natural slate roofing, and timber sheeted doors with timber sash and metal windows. The right outbuilding has replacement artificial slate roofing, timber sheeted doors, and sliding sash windows. It is abutted at the west gable by a late nineteenth-century barrel-roofed outbuilding with corrugated iron roof over timber boards on lattice trusses with parallel latticework bracing, and steel-framed and timber-louvered openings. On an adjacent outbuilding the barrel roof has been replaced with a pitched roof. Immediately to the rear of the house is a pair of lean-to structures abutting either side of a rubble masonry wall, part exposed walling and part roughcast cement rendered. Beyond the complex are slender rubble masonry piers with concrete caps, supporting wrought-iron field gates.