Moorlands, 100 Castlewellan Road, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4JD

A symmetrical two-storey-with-attic three-bay detached rubble stone house, built c.1860 and situated on a large mature site to the north side of Castlewellan Road, southeast of Banbridge town centre. U-shaped plan with projecting porch to front, two-storey extension (later) and modern conservatory to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with leaded hips and rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on paired brackets. Walling is random rubble stone with raised granite quoins and red-brick dressings. Windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with granite sills in red-brick surrounds with rendered reveals. East-facing, the principal elevation is five openings wide to each floor and is symmetrically arranged about a single-storey projecting porch detailed as house. Porch has window to left and right cheek, ovolo moulded eaves and blocking course and double-leaf three-panel timber door with brass door furniture accessed via a granite step. The south elevation has a hipped wall-head dormer to centre at attic and is four openings wide to first and ground floor. To ground floor left is a metal multi-paned canted bay with overlight and door to central opening, accessed via a set of steps. The west (rear) elevation is abutted to north by the later two-storey extension (lower), and to west by a modern timber conservatory. Window to first floor left and right. The two-storey extension has a variety of fenestration including two 1/1 leaded-and-stained glass timber sash windows to first floor. The north elevation has two windows to first and ground floor and a half-panelled timber door with sidelights and overlight. The north elevation has three 1/1 leaded-and-stained glass windows to first floor right and a window to first floor left. To ground floor right is a 1/1 window and a half-panelled timber door with square-headed overlight. Setting Set on a large mature site which has in part been developed in part with private housing to north and south. A tarmacadam driveway leads to a gravelled front concourse with yard to north accessed via a timber-sheeted door. Lawned garden to south and west. West garden enclosed by a modern brick boundary wall. Stone balustrade and Victorian greenhouse with decorative terracotta ridge tiles to west garden. Yard to north has two fine rubble-stone barns with red-brick dressings, both with a variety of timber-sheeted doors and timber-casement windows with relieving arches. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Rubble stone Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron