Clanmurry, 16 Lower Quilly Road, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1NL

Clanmurry is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house of the early nineteenth century with mid-twentieth-century additions, located at Quilly, west of Dromore. The building is T-shaped in plan, with a canted single-storey porch to the east and a single-storey portico and kitchen extension to the south.

The roof is hipped with natural slate, leaded ridges and hips, and plain rendered chimneystacks with simple caps. The walling is painted rendered without plinth. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods run over boxed eaves.

Windows throughout are timber sliding sashes: 6/6 to the ground floor and 3/6 to the first floor on the main block, with moulded architraves and plain entablature to the ground floor, and painted masonry cills. The rear elevation and returns have plain reveals. The mid-twentieth-century entrance door has ten flat panels with a three-pane transom over, set in a moulded architrave with a plinth block.

The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged with three openings, centred on a projecting canted entrance porch with plain entablature. The porch has a continuous wide projecting stone plinth and is accessed from the south, with a 6/6 window to the east flanked by 2/2 sashes (horizontally divided) to the canted sides. The south elevation of the main block has one window to each floor; the ground-floor window is tripartite 6/6 with 2/2 sidelights.

The main elevation extends at ground floor with a single-storey addition. The right section, dating from the mid-twentieth century, comprises a portico on two Tuscan columns flanked by half-columns, with cornice and leaded blocking course, now infilled with contemporary glazing and French doors. To its left is a modern kitchen extension in similar style with a tripartite window. The rear elevation is centrally abutted by a substantial full-height return, four windows deep with unequal spacing. The exposed section has two first-floor windows to each side and a ground-floor window to the left bay. The right bay and return to the south are completely abutted at ground floor by the extension. The rear elevation has a first-floor window and two ground-floor windows; rear access is via a timber-sheeted door to the left side. The north elevation mirrors the south with one window to each floor.

The setting comprises substantial landscaped gardens to front and rear, including a walled garden to the west. The house is completely screened from the road by mature planting. To the south is a paved terrace with a pond at a lower level, accessed from a gravel forecourt by a small wrought-iron pedestrian gate. To the rear is a long rectangular coach yard bounded to the west by a two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof. This outbuilding has roughcast walling to the east (yard-facing elevation) cut back to expose granite quoins, with the rear (west) elevation of English garden wall bonded redbrick and a concrete skirt, featuring replacement windows and timber-sheeted doors on plinth blocks. A separate two-storey outbuilding of little interest also stands in the yard.

The walled garden is bounded by a rendered wall, with a dirt lane running along its west perimeter and wrought-iron gates providing access. The main access avenue to the east is flanked by a pair of square rendered panelled piers with shallow pyramidal caps and eroded cast-iron gates. At the time of survey, a modern house in the style of a gate lodge was under construction flanking the entrance. Secondary access to the west leads to the rear yard via a lane.