Edenderry House, Banbridge Academy, Lurgan Road, Banbridge, County Down, BT32 4AQ

An asymmetrical Italianate two-storey three-bay former country house, now school, built c.1865 to designs by William Spence and located on the site of a modern Grammar school to the north side of Lurgan Road in Banbridge. Rectangular plan with central break-front gable fronted by a large porch and abutted by campanile tower; single-storey box bay windows to front, two-storey canted bay to southwest and lower two-storey extensions (c.1950) to northwest and northeast. Pitched natural slate roof with ashlar chimneystack and bargeboards to gables. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on paired bracketed eaves. Walling is rusticated limestone with plain ashlar sandstone dressings. Windows are replacement 1/1 timber sliding sash in moulded sandstone architraves with continuous sills; box bay windows to front with blind balustrades. The principal elevation faces southeast; central break-front bay has round arched triple mullioned windows to first floor in projecting ashlar sandstone surround; porch lit to cheeks by bipartite mullioned windows in lugged surrounds; surmounted by a balustrade on paired consoles. Porch contains six-panelled entrance door in chamfered recess with brass door furniture and square-headed overlight (accessed via three bull-nosed steps). To left side of porch is corner square campanile, corbelled out from first floor level with projecting roof on profiled brackets, having paired round arched windows above roof-line at two sides and an elongated window at first floor. Left bay has a gabled mullioned window to first floor flanked by two diminutive windows; tripartite box bay window to ground floor. Right bay has gabled mullioned window to first floor and tripartite box bay to ground floor. The southwest gable has a two-storey ashlar sandstone canted bay, lit by five windows to each floor; exposed section blank. The northwest (rear) elevation is abutted to centre by a two-storey extension (c.1950) in cast stoner; exposed section blank. The northeast elevation has a bipartite window to ground and first floor; abutted at right by a two-storey extension (c.1950) with three dormer windows to first floor and ashlar sandstone plat-band between floors. Setting The building has now been incorporated into the grounds of a Grammar School and is surrounded by modern school buildings, facing a large open playing field to front. Accessed from Lurgan Road at south by long tarmac drive with set of modern metal gates at the entrance. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Rusticated limestone Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron