Fairlea, 6 Cullycapple Road, Aghadowey, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4AR

Fairlea is a symmetrical three-bay two-storey detached house built around 1840, located on the north side of Cullycapple Road in Aghadowey, south of Coleraine, set within mature grounds.

The building comprises an L-shaped block with an additional rectangular block at the re-entrant angle, creating a square plan, with a single-storey return and various small abutments to the rear. The roof is hipped with natural slate and terracotta tiles to the ridges and hips, carrying two central rendered chimneystacks with simple caps and four tall clay pots. Rainwater goods are cast-iron half-round on brackets.

The walling is painted smooth render on a chamfered plinth with raised quoins. Windows are timber sash without horns: 3/6 lights to the first floor and 6/6 lights to the ground floor, all set in narrow painted render surrounds with projecting painted sills.

The principal elevation faces east and is three openings wide at each floor. At the centre of the ground floor is an elliptical-headed opening embraced by entablature on pilaster jambs rising from sweeping side walls which enclose three stone steps. The door is a bolection-moulded four-panelled timber piece with bronze furniture, flanked by wide leaded lattice sidelights with coloured glass panels and projecting sills, and surmounted by a similar elliptical-headed transom light. A cast-iron levered bell-pull is mounted to the left jamb.

The south elevation has four evenly-spaced windows at each floor. The west (rear) elevation has a round-headed 1/1 window and a 3/3 window to the first floor and a 6/6 window to the ground floor right. A toilet-block projection with slated lean-to roof abuts the right side, alongside the single-storey return. A tall flat-roof projection surmounted by a water tank abuts the left, with a roughcast rendered single-storey lean-to annexe featuring a chamfered northeast corner. The return has modern window openings to its north and south elevations; the south elevation also has a dormer window to the attic and is abutted by an early twentieth-century timber greenhouse with decorative crestings to the ridgeline. The flat-roof projection opens to the south via a round-headed arch into a porch with a timber-sheeted entrance door. The annexe has a large window opening to the west elevation and a timber-sheeted door to the east. The north elevation has a window to the first floor left and ground floor right; the right section has three windows to the first floor (the central window is 1/1 and round-headed) and windows to the left and right at ground floor.

Access from Cullycapple Road to the south is via a tree-lined avenue leading to a rear yard laid with concrete and fitted with large metal and timber gates. To the west of the yard stands a one-and-a-half-storey painted roughcast render outbuilding with slated roof and rendered chimneystack with clay pot to the south gable. It opens to the yard at the east with three replacement timber-sheeted doors and is abutted at the west by a rubblestone slated outbuilding. The yard is enclosed to the south by a modern garage, which abuts the gable of the single-storey return. To the southwest is a timber conservatory with plastic roof awning. Wrought-iron gates and piers stand to the north side of the house with a gravelled path leading to a mature garden at the front.