Knock House, 46 Lisnacroppan Road, Edengarry, Rathfiland, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5DA

A detached two-storey three-bay farmhouse with attached two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1830, located on a prominent elevated site on Lisnacroppan Road, between Banbridge and Rathfriland. L-shaped on plan, aligned E-W. Natural slate roof, hipped to angle and gabled to north and west, having blue-black ridge and hip tiles. Rendered gable chimneystacks with moulded caps and terracotta pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled stone eaves. Walling is ruled-and-lined rendered over a plinth, unpainted, with reticulated quoins and lintel blocks. Windows are 6/6 timber sashes with exposed sash boxes and horns, all with projecting granite cills. Principal elevation faces south and is five openings wide to each floor, symmetrically arranged about a central square-headed opening surmounted by reticulated voussoirs and basket-of-fruit motif in render; plain reveals. Replacement door with four bolection moulded pointed panels, no knob; matching sidelights with glazed upper panels and three-part transom (obscurely glazed). Accessed by a granite step. West gable is almost completely abutted by the outbuilding (see record HB17/08/014B). Rear elevation returns at left side; the right side has two windows to ground floor and two closely spaced windows to first floor. The return has a single gable window set to right at ground floor. Rear entrance door to right cheek, with single window over. East elevation has two windows to each floor, offset to right. Setting The house is set on an elevated site in a rural setting, bounded to the road by a rendered boundary wall with set back entrance having a pair of cast iron gates on square piers with deep rectangular panels and stepped caps. The driveway no longer exists, although there are vestiges of a mud track, probably leading to a former forecourt. Sloping garden with double terrace to south, having views over neighbouring farm and surrounding countryside, bounded by a tree-lined farm lane at west leading to agricultural land. Concrete farmyard to north, enclosed by a single-storey monopitched outbuilding at east and a two-storey barn and stable range at north (see HB17/08/014B). Modern farm buildings to secondary farmyard at north. Roof: Slate Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast iron