54 Grove Road, Backnamullagh, Dromore, County Down, BT25 1QX

Detached single-storey lobby-entry lime-rendered thatched dwelling, built c.1800. Rectangular on plan facing south and located down a lane off the south side of Grove Road with three roofless rubblestone outbuildings to the south. Pitched corrugated iron roof over original straw thatched roof with two rendered chimneystacks and metal guttering on iron brackets. Lime render over rubblestone walling. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and single-pane timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Front south elevation is four windows wide with a central windbreaker entrance porch with main roof extending down to cover the porch. The entrance contains a square-headed door opening with vertically-sheeted timber door. The front elevation is extended to the west to incorporate a byre having two square-headed door openings with vertically-sheeted half-doors. West gable has steel ties to roof and a single square-headed window opening with replacement glazing. Rear elevation has an irregular placement of diminutive window openings, a pair of square-headed door openings with sheeted timber doors and abutted to the east end by a lean-to extension, built c.1940. East gable abutted by lower rendered accretion having corrugated iron roof. Diminutive square-headed window opening to the attic level. Setting: Set on an east-west axis, facing south at the end of a lane to the south of Grove Road with wrought iron gates on round pillars at each end. Set in an informal front yard; yard enclosed to west by rubblestone low walling, to the east by a ruinous rubblestone agricultural building and to the south by a modern timber dwelling erected c.1990. Roof Corrugated iron over thatch RWG Metal Walling Lime render over rubblestone Windows Single-pane timber sash