Bellfield, 4 Broken Bridge Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4NN

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey with attic detached house with U-shaped outbuildings to rear forming a central yard, built c. 1850 and located on an elevated mature site north of Lurgan Road in Lenaderg. Rectangular plan with projecting porch to front and two-storey return to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with leaded ridgelines and rectangular chimneystacks having tall terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves with ornamented fascia and soffits with profiled brackets. Walling is smooth render on plinth with horizontal V-joints below first floor platband; full height pilasters to corners and flanking central bay. Windows are replacement 6/6 timber sliding sash with projecting sills; first floor window to centre at south is tripartite (2/2, 6/6, 2/2); ground floor windows to east and west are full-height multi-paned timber-casements. The principal elevation faces south-east and is five openings wide. Central entrance porch is set on a three step pediment and comprises a 6/6 window to south with a four-panelled timber door in moulded architrave to each cheek. The south-west elevation is three openings wide to each floor. The north-west elevation is abutted at right by a two-storey pitch roofed return (lower). To centre is a pitch roofed dormer to attic with round-arched window and slated cheeks; multi-paned round-arched stairwell window with a 3/6 window directly below to ground floor. To left is a window to ground and first floor (directly over). Return is abutted at north-west by an adjoining stable block at right-angles; left cheek is five windows wide to first floor (unequally spaced and of various sliding sash designs) and six openings wide at ground floor comprising timber sheeted door with multi-pane square-headed overlight to far left and fifth opening from left, remainder of openings are sliding sash windows of various designs; right cheek has five openings to each floor, multi-pane glazed timber door with multi-pane square-headed overlight to far left, remainder of openings are sliding sash windows of various designs. The north-east elevation is three openings wide; abutted at right by wall enclosing rear yard. Setting: Set on an elevated site in substantial grounds north of the Lurgan Road. Accessed via a curved tree-lined avenue with landscaped garden to front; bounded to road by modern smooth rendered boundary wall with arrow-head railings and square gate piers. Two-storey former stable block and outbuilding enclose a yard to rear; abutted by an L-shaped red-brick former coach house (fully refurbished) and in use as a Day Spa. Modern building constructed to north-west of outbuildings. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron