Cullycapple House, 19 Cullycapple Road, Aghadowey, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4AR

Cullycapple House is an asymmetrical four-bay two-storey-over-partially-exposed-basement double-pile house built around 1840 and extended around 1905, located to the south side of Cullycapple Road in Aghadowey, south of Coleraine. The house has a rectangular plan with a single-storey projecting porch to the front. A former two-storey dairy dating from around 1905 forms a return to the rear and has been incorporated into the main house.

The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and has angled ridge tiles. The rendered chimneystacks are tall with three clay pots each. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods sit on moulded eaves. The walls are finished with ruled-and-lined render on a contrasting plinth with vermiculated raised quoins. The basement is painted with smooth render, while the rear elevation is rendered with pebbledash.

Windows to the first floor are 3/6 timber sash without horns, and those to the ground floor are 6/6, all with exposed boxes set in moulded architraves with projecting painted sills. The basement has fixed six-paned timber windows with projecting painted sills. The rear elevation has replacement timber sash windows.

The principal elevation faces east and contains five openings at each floor, with those to the centre more closely grouped. To the left of centre at ground floor is the projecting flat-roof porch with moulded cornice, accessed by two stone steps (three at the north side). The porch contains a bolection-moulded six-panel timber door with raised-and-fielded decorative panels to the lower section and a cast-iron 'hand and wreath' knocker. The door is flanked by four fluted pilasters, two-paned sidelights and a three-light transom, all within a moulded architrave. To the right cheek is a 6/6 timber sash window in a moulded architrave with projecting painted sill; a blank window to the left cheek is detailed similarly.

The south elevation comprises two gables with an exposed basement enclosed by a rendered plinth wall topped by modern cast-iron railings. The wider gable to the right has a 6/3 window to the first floor right, a smaller timber casement window to the first floor left, and a 6/6 window to the left of centre at ground floor, with two windows to the basement. The left gable has two 6/3 windows to the first floor over a bipartite 6/6 window to the centre at ground floor.

The west (rear) elevation is abutted at the left by a single-storey abutment linking the two-storey former dairy from around 1905. Grouped to the centre at first floor are three windows. A replacement two-panelled-and-glazed timber door with transom light is positioned at ground floor left of centre, with square terracotta tiles to the entrance and a metal boot-scraper. The door is flanked by a window to each side and has a 6/6 window at the right. The return from around 1905 has a hipped slate roof with terracotta ridges and hips. The corner wall at the southwest contains a replacement panelled-and-glazed timber door with square tiles to the entrance. The south elevation of the return has a variety of fixed and timber sash windows, while the north elevation has two 6/6 timber sash windows. The north elevation of the main house has two windows at first and ground floor to each gable.

The house is situated on a mature site accessed via curved rendered entrance walls with saddleback coping terminating in two square piers. The piers have painted caps topped by ball finials and support replacement cast-iron gates. A tree-lined avenue leads to a gravel concourse at the front of the house. To the north is an elliptical-headed arch opening to a pebbled rear yard.

The yard contains a variety of pebbledash outbuildings. To the north of the entrance is a two-storey pebbledash coach-house with a hipped roof having blue and black angled tiles to the ridges and hips, topped by a metal weathervane. The first floor has two timber-sheeted loading doors and a six-paned fixed timber window. To the centre at ground floor is an elliptical-headed carriage-arch entrance containing timber-sheeted doors with modern metal hinges. The rear elevation is abutted at the left by a stable block. The coach-house has a timber-sheeted loading door and five-paned oculus to the first floor and a six-paned fixed timber window at ground floor.

To the west side of the yard is a symmetrical two-storey stable block with two six-paned fixed timber windows with projecting painted sills to either side of an original half-glazed timber door surmounted by a two-paned transom light in a deep cement rendered recess. A half timber-sheeted door is set in a deep cement rendered reveal to the north gable. The stable block to the west is set on a slight slope and has an original natural slate roof and timber-sheeted half-doors. Modern stable blocks and large agricultural sheds are located to the south.