41 Bronte Road, Ballynaskeagh, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5BS

A detached asymmetrical two-storey three-bay eighteenth-century farmhouse, located on the Brontë Road, south of Banbridge, adjacent to a small split-level vernacular house (HB17/08/019B). Both houses are associated with the Brontë family. The farmhouse is L-shaped on plan with single storey outbuildings. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered skews and plain gable chimneystacks. Cast iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Walling is unpainted cement render over a plain plinth. Windows are replacement 6/6 timber sashes with horns in plain reveals, diminished to first floor. Projecting concrete cills. Principal elevation faces south-east and is three openings wide; left bay is wider. Replacement timber entrance door with glazed upper panel and granite threshold. South-west gable is blank. Rear elevation is abutted at centre by a full height return. Left and right bay each has a window to each floor. The return has a blank gable, lit at each floor by irregularly arranged fenestration to each side, and accessed via a replacement timber door to left cheek. North-east gable is blank. Setting The house is set on an elevated site, slightly back from and facing the road, with small front garden bounded by a cement-rendered boundary wall with modern pedestrian and vehicular gates. Cement driveway to east; to west, above the level of the road is a single-storey traditional outbuilding abutted to the road by a lower lean-to store accessed from road level. Roofs are natural slate; walls are limewashed rubble stone; openings are timber sheeted. The land falls steeply away to west, and the garden and outbuilding are retained by a high wall, which bounds a farmyard at a lower level. Agricultural land to north. Roof: Slate Walling: Cement render Windows: Timber sash RWG: Cast iron