Woodland Cottage, 30 Springbank Road, Downhill, Castlerock, Coleraine, Co Londonderry, BT51 4SB

The house faces north-east alongside Springbank Road behind an ivy-covered wall with entry by a hooped iron gate. A small forecourt is defined by fieldstones and paths are gravelled. Springbank Road, overlooking Downhill Forest, is accessed by making a sharp turn to the left (south) off the Limavady/Coleraine coast road about six miles from the former town. After travelling for about a quarter mile a further left turn and another quartyer of a mile (south-east) reveals the house. The house is single storey with the roofspace now opened up and provided with two small balconies that also have the benefit of light from a small foursquare window in the right (north-east) gable. The early harled and whitened finish has been removed exposing the underlying stone work that has been re-pointed. This also draws attention to the raw concrete used to the making up of the parapet gables after a fairly recent collapse of part of the roof. The roof is thatched between these parapets, each gable rises to a chimneystack and there is a further stack on the ridgeline left of centre over the kitchen hearth. The right hand (north-east) stack terminates in normal sized corbelling and supports one black clay pot with spark arrester. The other two exhibit deep corbelling, that at the centre has two black clay pots with spark arresters and the stack on the left hand (south-west) gable is without pots. At the front of the house the earlier fenestration has been altered but without significant effect on overall character. A window opening at the left-hand (south-west) end of the elevation has been altered to accommodate a timber sheeted half door. Beyond this the early entrance, with timber sheeted half door, is flanked to the left by two window openings in the earlier position and to the right there are now two closely spaced window openings in place of the earlier single window. The widows are vertically sliding with sashes divided into two panes vertically, sashed stops are curved and sills are of traditional depths. The left-hand (south-west) gable is blank. At the rear the earlier arrangement has been altered from three vertically sliding windows of varying sizes by substituting a trio of equal proportions similar to those on the front elevation. They are provided with sills of traditional depths in contrast to the earlier windows that did not have these features. The rear entrance, with sheeted half door, remains in the original position between the two large sloping buttresses that are now in exposed stone to match the remainder of the building