Ashfield House, 42 Killysorrel Road, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1LB

A symmetrical two-storey three-bay farmhouse originating from the mid seventeenth century. T-shaped plan form with porch, rear return and abutments. Located north of the junction between Killysorrell Road and Villa Wood Road; approximately 2 miles south west of Dromore. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; masonry skews; uPVC replacement rainwater goods; roughcast rendered chimneystacks with moulded cornice; circular clay pots. Roughcast walling. 6/6 timber sliding sash window with horns; masonry cills; first floor windows 3/6 with no horns; painted reveals. Timber four-panelled door with internal rectangular bead. The principal elevation faces south and is symmetrically arranged. Entrance to east cheek of central flat-roofed single-storey porch; single window to the front and left cheeks. Windows to either side of the porch with three first floor windows directly over. The west gable is asymmetrically arranged; ground and first floor windows to the left. Rear elevation is abutted to centre by a gabled return; re-entrant angle to its right is abutted by a lean-to addition. Exposed left bay is lit by a window to first floor. Return is lit by sash windows to first floor, and accessed via a lean-to porch at east having glazed timber door and 2/1 window to cheek. The addition is flush with west gable, lit by a bi-partite window to ground floor and a 6/6 above; it is further extended to north by a lean-to extension having sheeted door flanked by top hung windows (small 2/2 sash over). The east gable is asymmetrically arranged comprising a single ground floor window to the right with a diminished-in-scale 6/6 sliding sash window to the first floor right. The ground floor right is abutted by a mono-pitched slate roofed roughcast out building comprising two doors and a window to the north elevation. Setting Rural setting with extensive range of outbuildings (HB17/13/014B) and former hemstitching factory (HB17/12/014C). The site is accessed via a new entrance from the road; with original entrance leading to factory. The site is bounded to the south by a roughcast wall with cylindrical piers with wrought-iron gates accessing the rear yard. In front of the house is a simple garden; remains of rubble walls and wrought-iron gates throughout. Yard to the rear of the house enclosed by outbuildings (HB17/13/014B) predating 1830; generally exposed rubble masonry walling, partially rendered; natural slate roofing. Beyond is a large rectangular plan-form three-storey former hemstitching factory(HB17/13/014C); pitched natural slate roof with brick chimneystacks; cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble masonry walling to the ground and first floor and brick second floor. To the northwest is a modern steel framed timber stable block; of no interest. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast Windows: Timber sliding sash RWG: uPVC replacement