Laurel Vale, 15 Ballinderry Road, Aghalee, County Antrim, BT67 0DY

Detached three-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1830, with two-storey return. T-shape on plan facing west on the east side of Ballinderry Road near the village of Aghalee. Range of single and two-storey lime-washed outbuildings to the north and east. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles and pair of rendered chimneystacks rising from both gable ends with octagonal clay pots. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets to redbrick eaves course continuing across both gables. Galleted rubblestone walling with simulated redbrick flat-arches to front openings. Square-headed window openings with original timber sash windows, exposed sash boxes and sandstone sills. Symmetrical front elevation is three windows wide with central elliptical-headed door opening having original woodgrained timber doorcase. Early raised and fielded panelled door having ten panels flanked by three-pane sidelights each flanked by fluted pilasters to a stepped lintel cornice and webbed timber fanlight above. Door opens onto stone platform and gravel footpath to enclosed front garden. Rough-cast cement rendered north gable with single window opening to first floor having single-pane timber sash window. Rear end of gable is abutted by screen wall having pedestrian opening and stone lintel. Rear elevation abutted by two-storey rear return with a single enlarged window opening to the exposed section of the ground floor. Further rendered brick chimneystack to return with two original timber sash windows, a boarded up window and a bipartite 4/4 timber sash window with overlights. The south elevation of the return has a lean-to projection, while the rear gable is rough-cast rendered with timber plank door. South gable is abutted by mid twentieth-century greenhouse with a steel casement window to the first floor. Setting: Located on the east side of Ballinderry Road just north of the village of Aghalee, set within its own grounds accessed via wrought-iron gates on circular rendered piers and gravel lane along the north side of the house, lined with single and two-storey lime-washed outbuildings having tiled roofs, timber plank doors and some timber sash windows. Front garden enclosed by hedge and wrought-iron pedestrian gate and gravel footpath. Roof Natural slate Walling Galleted rubblestone Windows Original timber sash RWG Cast-iron