61 Killyvalley Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 5LX

A symmetrical two-storey three-bay late eighteenth-century farmhouse, set parallel to Killvvalley Road, Garvagh. Rectangular on plan, with attached single-storey outbuilding set perpendicular to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with cement rendered gable chimneystacks rising from cement rendered verges and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves; modern rooflights to front and rear, and dormer insertion to rear. Walling is roughcast render with smooth rendered plinth course and stepped quoins, painted grey. Windows are uPVC replacements to front, timber casements to rear, with one remaining original diminutive 2/2 sash to north-west gable attic. Front windows have painted moulded masonry architraves and painted projecting masonry cills. Principal elevation faces north-west and is five windows wide to each floor, those to outer bays being more closely spaced. Openings are arranged about a central entrance comprising uPVC door set in simple classical surround of fluted pilasters and plain entablature; addressed by a concrete step. North-east gable has a uPVC window to ground floor and a diminutive sash to attic. Rear elevation has irregularly spaced fenestration; central stairwell window at mid-level and uPVC door set to right of centre. Large gabled dormer insertion to centre of rear pitch, with two rooflights to either side. Abutting at ground floor left is a roughcast outbuilding with pitched tin roof and replacement stable doors. South-east gable has a uPVC window to ground floor and attic. Setting: The house occupies a rural farmland setting, set parallel to and slightly back from the road behind a small lawned garden, bounded by a roughcast boundary wall with smooth rendered plinth and no coping; at centre, leading to a path, is a wrought iron hoop gate supported on smooth rendered pointed piers. Farmyard to rear accessed to left of house via a pair of circular piers with shallow conical caps, supporting a pair of steel gates. Concrete yard bounded by modern farm sheds, with exception of a two-storey rubble stone outbuilding to south-east corner; the roof has collapsed, walling is random rubble stone, partially coursed; openings are formed in brick, those to loft having timber infil. Original stable stalls and cobbled floor to ground level. Of particular note is rectangular hay shed with rubble stone walls on three sides and open to the yard. The barrell vaulted corrugated iron roof is supported on segmental steel trusses. Roof: Slate Walling: Render Windows: uPVC RWG: Plastic