Rockvale, 56 Old Mill Road, Scarva, Banbridge, Co Down, BT63 6NL

A symmetrical two-storey four-bay eighteenth century house, originally single storey, located in a declivity on Old Mill Road, SE of Scarva village. Rectangular on plan with two storey flat roofed extension c.1950. Pitched natural slate roof with cement verges; four yellow brick chimneystacks with moulded caps. Cast iron gutters on projecting eaves band. Walling is dry dashed with rendered V-channelled quoins over a cement rendered plinth to principal elevation; otherwise painted roughcast rendered. Windows are tripartite 6/6 sliding sashes flanked by fixed 4 pane windows to principal elevation; diminished in height 3/6 to first floor flanked by fixed 3 pane windows (except for central first floor window); slightly projecting rendered reveals and granite cills; moulded cill course to first floor. Plain 6/6 to gables; 4/4 sashes to rear elevation except where stated; 2/2 and timber casements to return. Entrance door having four raised bolection moulded panels and no door furniture; frame raised on stone plinth blocks; moulded cement architrave. Symmetrical front elevation facing SE, five windows wide (3/6 to first floor centre). SW gable with window to first floor left. Rear elevation has irregular fenestration; abutted to right of centre by a flat roofed two-storey extension; to right of extension the first floor is blank, ground floor not viewed; immediately to left of extension are two windows to ground floor with two windows to first floor directly over with a further 6/6 window to ground floor far left. The extension comprises two casement windows to ground floor with three windows to first floor (that to centre is a diminutive casement with raised cill); left cheek has a timber sheeted door; right cheek not viewed. NE gable blank. Setting The house is prominently located gable to the road in a rural setting with farmyard to rear enclosed by a variety of single and two-storey outbuildings, modernised and of little interest. Manicured front garden and tarmac forecourt accessed from the road by an alcove entrance comprising roughcast walls with saddleback coping; pair of wrought-iron gates supported on rendered piers having roughcast central panel; diamond pointed caps. Small wrought-iron gate accessing secondary garden at N. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Dry dash / roughcast Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron