Rushbrook House, 15 Craigmore Road, Aghadowey, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4EX

Rushbrook House is an altered double-pile two-storey farmhouse built around 1800, located on a large elevated site to the north side of Craigmore Road, south of Coleraine, with views over surrounding countryside.

The building has a rectangular plan with a two-storey bowed entrance bay to the south side elevation and a two-storey gabled extension to the west. The pitched natural slate roof features blue and black angled ridge tiles and replacement red-brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods with cast-iron downpipes and hoppers run along the eaves. The walling is pebbledash on a cement rendered plinth with cement stepped quoins, though the east elevation retains a coursed rubble stone plinth with a painted stone string course.

Windows are predominantly timber sash with horns: 6/3 to the first floor and 6/6 to the ground floor, set in painted smooth render surrounds with projecting painted sills. Replacement timber casements and uPVC windows are present to the north and west elevations.

The entrance elevation faces south and comprises two gables linked by a valley parapet with a central two-storey bowed entrance bay. The bowed bay has a first-floor window above a replacement round-headed doorcase containing a modern four-panelled timber door flanked by panelled sidelights and surmounted by a spiderweb fanlight in a cement rendered surround with keyblock, accessed via stone and concrete steps. To the right of the bowed bay is a secondary entrance door, a modern panelled-and-glazed timber door in a cement rendered surround, accessed via three concrete steps. The west elevation is abutted at left by the two-storey extension, while to the right is a replacement round-headed stairwell window with coloured glass panels over a replacement ground-floor window with two coloured glass panels. The extension has windows to both floors at the gable, with two large window openings on the south elevation to the right. A lean-to entrance porch abuts the north elevation, containing a uPVC window and door. The north elevation comprises two gables, the right gable being slightly wider and set back, with two widely-spaced uPVC windows at ground and first-floor levels, and the right gable having a 6/6 window at first-floor level. The east elevation is five evenly-spaced windows wide across both storeys.

The building sits on a large plot to the north side of Craigmore Road, overlooking farmland to the north and planted with mature trees. Variety of farm buildings to the west and north include modern agricultural sheds. Access from Craigmore Road to the south is via coursed blackstone entrance walls with square piers having pointed caps. A tarmacadamed entrance flanked by hedges leads to a yard to the north, laid with concrete. Rubblestone slated outbuildings are located to the north and east. A two-storey barn to the north has a half-hipped roof with a variety of metal casement windows and timber-sheeted openings in red-brick surrounds. A modern cement rendered garage stands to the northwest side of the yard.