50 Drumlee Road, Ballyward, Banbridge, Co Down, BT31 9RT

A symmetrical two-storey three-bay farm house built around 1870, located off Drumlee Road to the north, approximately 2 miles east of Castlewellan, with a rectangular plan form and two-storey rear return.

The main house features a pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, masonry skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimneys are ruled-and-lined rendered with corbelled upper courses and clay pots. The walling is ruled-and-lined rendered throughout, except for the rear elevation which has painted lime render.

Windows are 8/8 timber sliding sash windows with horns, masonry cills, and plain reveals; the first floor windows are slightly diminished in height. The principal south-facing elevation is symmetrically arranged with a centrally positioned front door flanked by ground floor windows, and three first floor windows directly above. The front door is a replacement four-panelled timber door with bolection mouldings and modern brass ironmongery, with multi-paned side lights and a spoked fan-light set into an elliptical-arched opening.

The left gable has a single ground and first floor window. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged and includes a two-storey return pre-dating 1830 with a pitched roof, clipped verges, and replacement chimney. This return has two ground floor 6/6 timber sliding sash windows and two first floor 6/3 sliding sash windows with horns, exposed sash boxes, and shallow reveals. The right gable has a timber sheeted door with a single window to its left and a diminutive 6/3 first floor sliding sash window. The right gable itself contains a replacement ground floor casement window with a first floor window directly above, whilst the left gable is blank.

The house sits on an elevated site on a hillside, accessed via a long hedgerow-lined lane with fields either side. Views to the principal elevation are screened by vegetation. The lane terminates at the yard behind the house, which is accessed through rubble masonry piers; wrought-iron gates survive although are no longer in place. A narrow garden addresses the principal elevation, with a raised concrete platform and dwarf wall at the front entrance. The garden is bounded to the east by a rendered wall with masonry coping and a pedestrian wrought-iron gate with looped terminus.

The yard is bounded by various outbuildings of different phases in traditional construction with pitched natural slate roofs and timber sheeted openings. To the east is a two-storey roughcast rendered block with a loft accessed by external masonry steps, abutted by a lower shed and a low two-storey rubble stone block with perpendicular ridge and a large round-headed voussoired opening facing the yard. To the north is a two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with snecking and rough-dressed quoins, with stone slab external steps to the gable, abutted by a modern concrete block range.