Farmhouse, Edentrillick Road, Aghandunvarran, Hillsborough, County Down

Detached direct-entry two-bay single-storey painted rubblestone vernacular farmhouse built around 1800 with a single-bay byre to the south gable, located in the townland of Aghandunvarran south of Hillsborough, County Down.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing northwest and accessed via a shared lane on an elevated wooded site to the southwest of Edentrillick Road. The roof is pitched corrugated iron over straw thatch with two rendered chimneystacks and a redbrick eaves course. The walls are painted rubblestone. The front elevation is three windows wide with horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes and square-headed openings formed in redbrick with concrete sills. A square-headed door opening to the right bay has a plywood glazed door. The byre to the south gable extends the front elevation by a further bay with a vertically-sheeted timber half-door. To the north, a lower roofless rubblestone byre abuts the blank north gable. The rear elevation is five windows wide with corrugated iron sheeting to all openings. The south gable wall is blank. The adjoining south byre has a pitched natural slate roof.

The farmhouse first appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833 as a single oblong building. It does not feature in the Townland Valuation of the 1830s. By 1861, according to Griffith's Valuation, it was occupied by Robert Sterling, who rented the £1 5 shilling property from the Marquis of Downshire. The second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1859 shows a small outbuilding to the west of the house, constructed sometime between 1833 and 1859. The northeast-facing extension appears to have been built at the same time as the farmhouse and was used as a stable block.

The 1901 Census records that John Sterling, a local Methodist farmer, occupied the house with his sister Elizabeth, who was employed as a housemaid. The census building return described it as a second-class dwelling consisting of three rooms with a thatched roof. Neither the farmhouse nor John Sterling appear in the 1911 Census. The originally thatched roof has since been replaced with a slate roof, and corrugated tin sheeting has been placed over the adjoining stable block. The building is currently unoccupied and in a state of disrepair, primarily used for storage by the current owners. The interior and exterior retain some features of a vernacular house, although there has been loss of historic detailing and fabric.