Sylvan Hill House, Kilntown Road, Dromore, Banbridge, Co Down, BT25 1HR

A symmetrical one-and-a-half storey three-bay house, built c.1790, located on the Kilntown Road, north-west of Dromore. Rectangular on plan, extended to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with three roughcast chimneystacks having moulded stone caps; ogee cast-iron rainwater goods; decorative bargeboards to gables. Walling is roughcast rendered. Windows are replacement 6/6 timber sashes, all with painted masonry cills; those to principal elevation are set in later lugged cement architraves with profiled label moulding. Symmetrical principal elevation facing south, three openings wide. Central elliptical-headed entrance comprising 6-panelled timber door with cast-iron door furniture including lion’s head knocker; geometrical fanlight and sidelights over timber apron panels; all set within a rendered surround with moulded archivolt and keyblock, accessed by two replacement granite steps. West gable has two attic windows; former ground floor window to left side now forming a door leading to a modern conservatory, which abuts at ground floor. Rear elevation is abutted by a two-storey flat roofed extension to left and right side, and a single-storey flat-roofed extension to centre. The exposed central section has a single uPVC window. Variety of modern windows to extensions; accessed at centre by a multi-paned glazed timber door with sidelights. East gable has two timber casement windows to attic, and a modern timber glazed and panelled door to ground floor right. Setting The house is set slightly back from the road in a mature garden setting, bounded by hedges and trees. Gravel forecourt accessed by a short curved drive to left; entrance is marked by modern rendered wall and steel gates. To rear is a two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof; timber sheeted openings with voussoir rubble stone or brick heads, some openings also with brick jambs. It is abutted at left by a single storey brick outbuilding with barrelled corrugated metal roof supported on Belfast trusses, and tall rectangular chimney to left side. Flush timber windows (2/2 and six-light) without cills; timber lintels. Timber sheeted doors. The interior contains two rooms, that to left with a large open fireplace, that to right with stable stalls. The garden contains simple wrought iron gates, and a pair of ornate cast- and wrought-iron gates to front garden supported on cast-iron piers. Cow-tail handled cast-iron water pump to yard. Roof: Slate Walling: Roughcast Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron