Whitevale, 18 Ballymaconaghy Road, Belfast, County Down, BT8 6SB

A detached two-storey four-bay farmhouse built c.1880 and incorporating an earlier single-storey dwelling and stable-block (c.1850) to east; located east of the Ballymaconaghy Road in the borough of Castlereagh. Rectangular-plan with projecting gabled porch to front and two-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with blue/black angled ridge tiles and bracketed timber eaves to gables; three rectangular chimneystacks with tall clay pots. Aluminum ogee rainwater goods on projecting timber eaves Walling is ruled-and-lined painted smooth render on a smooth rendered plinth (deep stepped plinth to west gable); roughcast painted render to rear elevation. Windows are replacement timber-framed casements with projecting masonry sills, in segmental-headed surrounds to first floor. The principal elevation faces north; chimneystack to right of centre at ridgeline divides the façade into two sections; left section is three windows wide to each floor; right section has a window to first and ground floor centre; to left is the projecting gabled porch with overhanging eaves, having four-panelled timber door surmounted by dog-tooth frieze and transom light; accessed via half-round masonry step. The east gable is abutted by the single-storey former dwelling. The south (rear) elevation is abutted to right of centre by the two-storey return. Three windows to first floor, at left side of return; one window to first floor, right of return. Diminutive window and multi-paned window to ground floor, at left side of return. Four-paned window to right of return. Two-storey return has a window to first and ground floor of gable; west elevation has a narrow timber casement window; east elevation has a window at first floor right and to centre at ground floor. The west gable has a multi-paned window to ground floor left. The single-storey former dwelling has replacement windows throughout and cast-iron half-round rainwater goods. Replacement timber-sheeted entrance door to centre; window to left; two windows to right. East gable is abutted by the single-storey stable-block (at a lower level). Rear elevation has modern timber-panelled door to right and two windows at left. Stable block is partially of mud-walled construction; having two timber-sheeted half-doors to north elevation. Setting: Set on a large mature site east of the Ballymaconaghy Road, in a once rural location, now substantially developed. Bounded to all sides by mature trees and hedgerow. Original entrance to west has two Ulster gate piers with pointed caps. Secondary shared entrance to northwest. Large landscaped garden to north with mature trees and paddock to east. Small lawned garden to rear. Roof: Pitched natural slate roof Walling Ruled-and-lined painted render and roughcast render Windows: Replacement timber frames RWG: Aluminium