Cornhill House, 15 Cavehill Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5BB

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey lime-rendered house, built c.1820. Rectangular on plan, facing east with single-bay two-storey extension abutting north gable, built c.1900. Located to the west of Cavehill Road, with enclosed front garden and two rubblestone outbuildings enclosing rear yard. Pitched natural slate roof with oversized slates, terracotta ridge tiles, three replacement profiled redbrick chimneystacks and steel guttering on iron brackets to rendered eaves course. Painted lime-rendered walling to front elevation, pebbledash rendered to remaining elevations and extension with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, diminished to front elevation, with painted masonry sills, exposed sash boxes and original 2/2 timber sash windows with ogee horns to front elevation only. UPVC windows to rear elevation and timber casement windows to east extension. Symmetrical front east elevation is three windows wide with a central depressed elliptical-headed front entrance having a tripartite timber doorcase. Original vertically-sheeted woodgrained double-leaf timber door with iron door furniture, fixed-pane sidelights and depressed timber radial fanlight over. Door opens onto three granite steps to front garden. Gabled south side elevation with chimney to apex has a single 2/2 timber sash window to the ground floor. Rear elevation has irregularly arranged square-headed window openings with a square-headed door opening to the left bay having replacement vertically-sheeted timber door and rectangular overlight, opening directly into rear concrete paved yard. Gabled north side elevation with chimney to apex abutted by gable-ended two-storey extension, of little interest. Setting Located on the west side of Cavehill Road on an elevated site at a bend in the road. Front garden enclosed to the road by rough-cast rendered walls and pair of wrought-iron gates on rendered piers opening into a short gravel drive to the front garden. A further vehicular entrance located further south has a pair of wrought-iron gates and sweeping rendered walls providing access to the rear yard. Lining the south side of the yard is a two-storey rubblestone outbuilding, dated ‘JUNE 1840’, having pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, vertically-sheeted timber doors and abutted to the north by a flight of external stone steps and to the south by a lean-to structure having corrugated iron roof. The west of the yard is enclosed by a late twentieth-century double-height structure. The north of the yard is enclosed by a further single-storey rubblestone outbuilding having pitched natural slate roof, vertically-sheeted timber doors, those to the rear north elevation having gauged redbrick arches. Roof: Natural slate Walling: renderer Windows: Timber/uPVC RWG: Steel