28 Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, Co Down, BT32 3NH

A symmetrical one-and-a-half-storey three-bay semi-detached house, predating 1819 and located west of Scarva Road in the centre of Loughbrickland. Rectangular plan with single-storey lean-to outshot. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and roughcast rendered chimneystack with a single terracotta pot. uPVC rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is painted roughcast render to east elevation; rubble stone to rear elevation; north gable is roughcast render with platband under eaves. Windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with horns, exposed boxes, and projecting masonry sills; those to north gable are set in smooth rendered surrounds. The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged with a window to either side of a central four-panelled timber door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by a spider-web fanlight. The south gable is abutted by an outbuilding belonging to the neighbouring property (HB17/03/008). The rear (west) elevation has a 3/6 window to left and right; abutted to centre by the single-storey lean-to outshot with glazed timber door to left and 3/6 window to right; blank cheeks. The north gable has a 3/6 window to first floor centre and a boarded window to ground floor centre. Setting Set back from the road to east with lawn and shrub garden, bounded by painted smooth rendered wall with coping stones topped with decorative cast-iron railings; octagonal granite gate-piers with dome tops support a decorative cast-iron latch gate. Garden is bounded to north and south by a rubble stone wall. North gable fronts road; access from north to gravelled driveway via modern timber gates. To rear is a small garden and slated rubble stone outbuilding with red-brick dressings. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Render / stone Windows: Timber RWG: uPVC