5 Rock Meeting Road, Fourtowns, Ballymacaratty Beg, Poyntzpass, Co.Armagh

A symmetrical two-storey three-bay vacant farmhouse with rubble stone outbuildings; built c.1860 and located south of Rock Meeting Road, Banbridge. Rectangular plan with two-storey flat roofed out-shot to rear. Pitched profiled metal roof with no rainwater goods or chimneystacks. Walling is harled lime over rubble stone. Windows are boarded to main elevation and sashes in exposed boxes to first floor; all with granite sills. The principal elevation faces north-west and is three openings wide to each floor; all openings are boarded. The north-east gable is abutted by a single-storey annexe; top section is blank. The rear (south-east) elevation is abutted to centre by the two-storey flat-roof off-shot; windows to left and right at ground and first floor (ground floor are enlarged casements). Out-shot has a window to ground and first floor and a timber sheeted door to the west elevation. The south-west gable is blank. Setting Situated on an elevated site with views of the surrounding countryside, accessed via a curved laneway with mature trees; farmyard to rear. Lawned to front with a small orchard to north. Bounded to lane to west by a roughcast rendered wall with square piers having pointed caps and supporting a cast-iron latch gate. Two-storey rubble stone barn to rear yard with metal casement windows and timber-sheeted loading doors. To east is a large modern agricultural shed enclosing the yard. To south is a modern farmyard. To north, with shared access, is a modern two-storey detached house with landscaped garden. Roof: Profiled metal Walling: Lime render Windows: Boarded RWG: None