Eglantine House, Harry's Road, Carnbane, Hillsborough, Co. Down

Eglantine House is a detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey country house built around 1800 and refurbished circa 1845 to designs by Charles Lanyon. It is situated on an elevated site overlooking pastures to the west near Hillsborough in County Down.

The house is stucco-fronted in the Italianate style and square on plan, facing east. It features a full-height central canted entrance bay with a portico, and originally included a single-storey wing over basement to the south, which was destroyed by fire around 1990 and is currently being reconstructed internally and restored externally.

The building has hipped natural slate roofs with lead ridges behind a balustrade parapet wall incorporating decorative rendered chimneystacks with decorative clay pots. Replacement metal rainwater goods break through the walls below parapet level. The painted rendered walling includes a moulded plinth course, continuous moulded sill courses, moulded cornices above the ground floor, and a further dentilated cornice below the parapet. The ground floor features reticulated rusticated quoins, while the first floor has plain rusticated quoins. All window openings are square-headed with architrave surrounds, continuous moulded sill courses, and raised and fielded apron panels. Plain entablatures flank all ground floor window openings, with foliate console brackets to those on the front elevation. All windows have been re-fenestrated with 6/6 timber sash windows to the first floor and 9/6 to the ground floor.

The symmetrical front elevation is seven windows wide. The central canted entrance bay has a two-storey balustrade Doric entrance portico comprising a sandstone paved raised platform and sandstone steps flanked by a pair of Doric columns and matching Doric piers supporting an architrave, plain frieze, and overhanging cornice with mutules. A low parapet wall with geometric balustrade tops the portico. Slender window openings flank both cheeks with matching Doric pilasters abutting the bay. A tall square-headed door opening with original moulded architrave surround is flanked by a pair of original scrolled foliate console brackets supporting a cornice above, all set on exposed redbrick wall.

The south side elevation is two-storey over an exposed basement with a two-storey three-sided canted bay to the west end, abutted by a flat-roofed single-storey wing over basement. A round-headed door opening in the south bay opens onto stone steps flanked by original wrought-iron railing. The rear west elevation is two-storey and five windows wide. The north side elevation is two-storey with a two-storey three-sided canted bay to the west half.

The house sits within an enclosed yard with a restored outbuilding to the south-west, now converted into housing units with natural slate roof and roughcast render under separate ownership. A new development of townhouses in the form of outbuildings has been constructed further south. The principal former entrance gates with gate lodge stand on Hillsborough Road, no longer in use, with a bituminous avenue leading west to Harry's Road.