Ballintemple House, 40 Churchtown Road, Garvagh, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 5BE

Ballintemple House is an asymmetrical three-bay two-storey detached house built around 1840 and incorporating an earlier single-storey dwelling dating to 1795, situated on a large mature site with various outbuildings. The house has an east-facing inverted T plan with a single-storey extension at the south having a bowed front; a perpendicular gabled block to the rear is abutted to the north by a one-and-a-half-storey servants wing; the original single-storey dwelling (south-facing) forms a return to the rear; and a single-storey lean-to extension with porch is also to the rear.

The house is roofed with pitched natural slate with angled ridge tiles, rendered chimneysstacks and bargeboards to the gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods sit on bracketed eaves. The walling is roughcast render with ruled-and-lined render to the rear gable. Windows are timber sash without horns—6/3 to the first floor and 6/6 to the ground floor—all set in painted smooth-rendered surrounds with projecting painted sills unless otherwise stated.

The principal elevation faces east and is five openings wide at each floor. An off-centre elliptical-headed doorcase in a moulded surround contains an original wide timber door with beaded muntin, four vertical panels and cast-iron door furniture, flanked by panelled jambs and margin-paned sidelights and surmounted by an original timber fanlight with decorative vertical glazing bars. The door is accessed via three sandstone steps. The south gable has a 6/6 window at first floor left; at ground floor it is abutted by the single-storey extension, which has a hipped roof with leaded ridges and hips and a bowed front to the east two windows wide, abutted to south and west by a replacement timber conservatory. The west (rear) elevation comprises a central gabled bay abutted at the north by the two-storey gabled block and at the south by the single-storey original dwelling (1795). The gable has two round-headed 2/2 windows with horizontal glazing bars to the first floor and a diminutive timber casement window to the ground floor. The single-storey original dwelling (1795) has, to its south elevation, two 6/6 windows with horns flanking a half-glazed timber door; its west gable has a timber casement window at left. The gabled block to the left has two 1/1 windows at the first floor and is abutted at ground floor by the single-storey lean-to extension, which has a 12/12 window with horns and a diminutive timber casement window; a porch to the north cheek has a replacement timber casement window. The north elevation (gable) has two 4/4 windows at first floor left and an 8/8 window to ground floor left, abutted at right by the one-and-a-half-storey servants wing with two 2/2 windows to the attic and a 2/2 window to the ground floor at the gable; its east elevation has three 2/2 windows at ground floor. The north elevation also has a diminutive four-light fixed window to the first floor left and a 6/6 window to the first floor right.

The house is situated on large mature grounds to the south side of Churchtown Road. Gravelled entrances to the northeast and northwest lead to an informal rear yard. The yard is accessed to the north side of the house via a set of circular pebbledash piers with pointed caps. The yard is laid with concrete and contains a variety of single and two-storey pebbledash outbuildings, including a fine two-storey coach house to the west. The coach house has a slate roof, a pebbledash chimney stack with tall clay pot and a bell-cote with bell to the south gable, timber casement windows and timber-sheeted doors throughout. The stable to the coach house at ground-floor left retains an original stone sett floor and traditional timber stalls and fittings. A lawned garden to the east contains a variety of mature trees and is bounded by a mature hedgerow.