Glencar, 35 Newry Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3HP

Glencar is a two-storey, four-bay detached house built in 1908 in a loose interpretation of the Domestic-Revival style. It stands on a large mature site on the west side of Newry Road in Banbridge.

The building has an irregular plan form, basically rectangular with projections to all sides. These include a projecting asymmetrical gabled box bay to the front and later single-storey and two-storey extensions to the rear. The roof is pitched and hipped with rosemary tiles, replaced terracotta ridge and hip tiles, some leaded hips, and plain bargeboards to the gables. Rendered chimneystacks have dentiled concrete caps and reclaimed clay pots. The building is finished with aluminium gutters and uPVC downpipes (with a single cast-iron downpipe remaining), descending from overhanging eaves with later roughcast soffits.

The walling comprises English garden wall-bonded red brick to the ground floor and painted roughcast render to the first floor. The southwest elevation has shingled asbestos tiles to the first floor gable. The windows are a variety of metal and timber casement windows with replacement concrete and some original masonry sills, some with replacement leaded-and-stained glass panels to the upper sections. Some windows to the rear and side elevations have been recently replaced in uPVC.

The principal southeast elevation is dominated by an asymmetrical gabled bay with a recessed open segmental-arched porch to the left, a large Penta partite multi-pane window to both first and ground floor to the right, and a diminutive two-pane casement window to the first floor left. The apex has a slightly recessed tiled recess detail. The porch is laid with replaced terracotta tiles and has a half-panelled timber door with leaded-and-stained glass panels, a square-headed overlight, and sidelights (tripartite to the left and single-paned to the right with flat-panelled aprons). There is a replacement doorbell. The left bay has quadripartite multi-paned windows to each floor; the ground-floor window is contained beneath a lean-to rosemary-tiled canopy supported on a brick pier to the left. The canopy is enclosed to the left of the pier and is partially glazed with an inserted bipartite multi-pane window on a brick plinth. A panelled-and-glazed timber door opens to the right cheek, with single (left) and bipartite (right) multi-pane windows to the left cheek. To the right of the gabled bay is a slender multi-pane window to each floor. The right bay is set back and lower, with a bipartite multi-pane window to the first floor and a tripartite multi-pane window to the ground floor.

The southwest elevation is abutted to the ground floor by a projecting single-storey bay with a half-hipped roof, lit by two round windows with cills. A central chimney breast to the first floor is flanked by two windows.

The northwest (rear) elevation has a two-storey hipped return to the centre, which is then abutted by a single-storey brick return. The chimney to the single-storey rear return has been rebuilt and is plain compared to the original chimneystacks to the main house. To the right of the return is a multi-paned window to both ground and first floor levels, and a projecting ground-floor box bay to the right with a timber multi-paned window. An oriel window on the southwest face of the rear return contains a replacement uPVC multi-paned window and pumice stone aggregate concrete cill. To the left of the rear return are two further uPVC windows to the first floor. The ground floor is abutted by a small, more recent flat-roof extension with a skylight. Two-storey returns have been infilled around 1970 by a flat-roofed section comprising a utility to the ground floor and bathroom above. The rear yard is enclosed by a red-brick wall with a replacement timber-sheeted gate opening to the northeast.

The northeast elevation has two quadripartite multi-pane windows of different designs to the ground floor; a tripartite multi-pane window to the first floor left (timber) and a bipartite uPVC window to the first floor right.

The house sits on a large mature site with a lawned front garden containing a variety of mature trees and shrubbery. A curved tarmacadamed driveway leads to the house; the original red-brick gate piers with coping stones and original metal gates have been removed. A detached part timber-framed, panelled garage with an asbestos-tiled roof, replacement decorative timber apex, and timber bargeboards stands on the north side of the main house, in keeping with its style. A latch-gate stands to the southwest and a stone-edged pond (rebuilt in recent years) occupies the rear garden. Various cold frame structures and outhouses of a later date are located within the gardens. A rear entrance from Old Newry Road, located between numbers 23 and 25, features a modern timber gate and fencing. To the right of this entrance stands Glencar Cottage, 25 Old Newry Road, a single-storey dwelling of 1910 with a hipped fibre-cement roof.