42 Belfast Road, Glenavy, County Antrim, BT29 4HQ

A two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with outbuildings erected c.1850, including additional bay c.1940. Located directly off the Belfast Road, 1.5 miles east of Glenavy village. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; hipped rolled-lead roof over canted bay. Timber barge boards to gable ends. uPVC replacement rainwater goods. Rendered brick chimneys; one remaining terracotta pot. Dry-dashed render with smooth bands, plinth course and surrounds to openings. 2/2 timber sliding sash with horns; horizontal glazing bars; painted stone cills. Replacement front plain timber door. The principal elevation faces south and is asymmetrically arranged. Gable ended front porch located left of centre; smooth rendered; windows to the east & south face and door to west. Ground and first floor windows uniformly arranged; four windows wide to the left hand side; single canted bay on the later right bay. The left gable is blank with decorative rendering to the gable head; chimney rising from gable apex. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged. Centrally located gabled rear porch; window to north face and door to the east face. Porch flanked by irregularly arranged ground and first floor windows; largely replaced or altered. The left bay is abutted by a former stable block with hay loft over. The right gable has two ground floor windows; detailing matches left gable. Setting: Adjacent to a road on the south side and largely surrounded by historic and modern agricultural buildings to the west and north; beyond which lies rural landscape. Modern detached house located nearby to the east. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Dry-dash/rendered Windows: Timber sliding sash RWG: uPVC