Farm Buildings, Hillsborough Road, Backnamullagh, Dromore, County Down

Detached pair of lofted outbuildings, built during the late nineteenth-century. Set at right angles to each other the rubblestone outbuilding (south range) faces southeast while the rendered outbuilding (west range) faces northeast, arranged around an agricultural yard and accessed via a shared bitmac lane to the east of Hillsborough Road. Pitched natural slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles, iron skylights and replacement cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed rubblestone walling to the northwest range, rough-cast rendered walling to the southwest range. Square-headed window openings with masonry sills. The south range has decorative cast-iron fixed-pane windows and an oculus to the west gable. Cast-iron wall plates to both elevations and replacement vertically-sheeted timber half-doors to the inner elevation. Granite steps abutt the front elevation with quarter-pace landing and turning onto the east gable with replacement iron handrail. The west range has a redbrick eaves course, boarded shutters to the window openings, a central loading bay with timber pulley and a segmental-headed carriage arch opening to each elevation, formed in redbrick with vertically-sheeted timber doors. To the north gable is a flight of granite steps to a sheeted timber door. Setting: Arranged around an informal agricultural yard with no associated dwelling evident and located at the end of a bitmac lane, shared with two modern dwellings on the east side of Hillsborough Road. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Rubblestone / rough-cast render Windows Multi-pane cast-iron