The Banks, 15 Beragh Hill Road, Londonderry, BT48 8LX

A 2 storey 3 bay wide, smooth rendered, hipped slated roof with shallow projecting porch., 2 bays deep with 2 storey gabled return. The entrance elevation, symmetrical, with central 4 panelled door, with plain fanlight set in shallow projecting porch, the flanking walls finished as smooth pilasters, with plain frieze over and pronounced cornice with upstand parapet to flat. On each side single 4 pane top hung window with square heads. Above slightly less tall similar windows directly over those below and are over entrance door. 1st floor windows have shallow segmented hands which cut into a plain frieze capped with cornice which incorporates the metal gutter. Slightly horned cills and plinth. The proportion of solid to void is more akin to Georgian style than Victorian. Roof is hipped, low pitch, with 2 no yellow brick chimneys moulded. Each side elevation has 2 single windows at ground and first floor echoing those to the front. Frieze and plinth can be carried round too. The back return is pushed to the north east of the rear wall and the ceiling heights lower than main part of house and the roof is gabled. The back porch is a more recent addition as is the door leading direct from kitchen to dining room, by the present owner.Both the back return and back porch are roofed in synthetic slates. Behind the house a simple farmyard with 2, 2 storey outhouses built in random rubble with slated pitched roofs. These are not formally arranged. The setting of the farmhouse is good being on the south side of Beragh Hill Road has a fine view towards Co Derry. Garden to front and sides of house well tended with a short flight of steps leading down to front lawn.