Strawbridge House, 39 Bushfoot Road, Portballintrae, County Antrim, BT57 8RR

Strawbridge House is a compact, formal, two-storey double-fronted gabled-ended house believed to date from 1862, with a slightly lower two-storey annex on the east gable that may represent part of an older dwelling. The property is located within a small grouping of dwellings of various ages at Bushfoot, somewhat isolated at the end of Bushfoot Road just east of Portballintrae, County Antrim. To the rear there is a range of single-storey outbuildings.

The house is roughly rectangular on plan with a short two-storey return to the centre of the rear façade. The main block has rendered chimneysstacks to each gable, with that of the lower section abutting the east stack of the main block. All stacks have bases and corbelled caps with decorative clay pots. The façade is largely finished in painted roughcast and the gabled roofs are slated, with clay ridge tiles to both sections.

Doors and window openings are mainly boarded over, though frames are visible internally and are mainly 1/1 timber sash; to the rear some frames have margin panes. The main north façade is symmetrical with a central doorway. This has a moulded surround consisting of plain pilasters supporting a projecting cornice surmounted by a blocking course. A small break in the render reveals that the door surround is formed in brick. There is a flat-headed window opening to either side on the ground floor, with three similar openings to the first floor. The west gable has four evenly spaced flat-headed window openings. To the right side there is an almost full-height screen wall stepped and reducing in a series of curved sweeps, with a flat-headed window opening that lights an open porch.

The rear façade has a central two-storey projection. On the left side a lean-to slated roof spans between the adjoining screen wall and the projection, sheltering a small open porch. The projection has two flat-headed window openings; that to the ground floor is boarded over while that to the first floor has a 1/1 timber sash with margins. To the east side of the projection is a small lean-to boiler house with two flat-headed window openings, the ground floor boarded over and the first floor having a 1/1 timber sash frame with margins.

The lower annex to the east is the same depth as the main house with the same roof pitch, though the ridge is set a little lower. Window openings to the north front are flat-headed and boarded over. The timber frames visible from the interior are tripartite with 2/2, 8/8 and 2/2 sash arrangements. There are a number of randomly arranged window openings in the east gable; some have sash frames and some have modern fixed lights. To the right side of the rear façade of the annex is a single-storey hipped roof porch. To the left of the porch is a flat-headed window opening with another roughly to the centre of the first floor; that to the ground floor is boarded while that to the first floor is tripartite with 2/2, 8/8 and 2/2 arrangements. All sash window frames to the annex have relatively plain thick glazing bars, suggesting that these frames may be relatively recent.

To the side and rear of the house is a large yard enclosed by a wall with a pair of round pillars and wrought iron double gate in poor condition. To the rear of the house is a small garden running into a large gravelled yard with a further row of single-storey outbuildings beyond. These are part rubble, part brick with slated gabled roofs and some regularly arranged flat-headed window openings and doorways. Farther still a grassed lane gives onto a rear lane. To the north of the site is the golf club car park; to the west fields; across the lane to the south are various sheds; and the other buildings in this small group bound the site to the east. The boundary wall to the yard runs into the centre of the gable.