Ravarnet House, 24 Carnbane Road, Ravernet, County Down, BT27 5NG

Detached three-bay two-storey pebble-dash rendered house, dated 1879, extended and refurbished c.1920, incorporating an earlier three-bay two-storey house to the front, built c.1820. Located on the north side of Carnbane Road on an extensive landscaped site at a lower level to the road. Hipped natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles (rolled lead ridges to the hips), serveral rendered chimneystacks with decorative terracotta pots and gabled wall-head dormers to the west pitch. Ogee-moulded metal guttering to overhanging eaves supported on shaped modillions and metal downpipes. Dry-dash rendered walling with smooth rendered corners and continuous smooth render plat band between floor levels. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, rendered reveals and timber sash windows. Front north elevation is three windows wide with a two-storey gabled entrance bay having terracotta finial. Tripartite timber sash windows to the entrance bay with horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows and margin lights to the remainder. To the west cheek of the entrance bay is a square-headed door opening with moulded cement render surround, panelled timber door with stop-chamfers and decorative handle having canopy over supported on pair of brackets. East side elevation is eight windows wide with horizontally-glazed timber sash windows, some timber casement windows and two replacement timber glazed doors. Abutting this elevation to the south end is a flat-roofed rear entrance porch. South rear elevation comprises a pair of two-storey gables, one set back from the other and abutted by a timber-framed conservatory and a screen wall. 6/6 timber sash windows to the re-entrant angle. West garden elevation is abutted by a two-storey central three-sided canted bay and a two-storey square-plan gabled bay, fully glazed to the ground floor. All fenestration to this elevation is multi-pane timber sash windows with three round-headed door openings to the south end having timber French doors. Setting: Set within its own large landscaped site having a two-storey outbuilding enclosing gravel yard to east, lawn to west and north and enclosed to the south by a tall rendered wall to Carnbane Road. Winding gravel drive opens onto Carnbane Road to the southwest via pair of decorative iron gates on dry-dash rendered piers and wall. Roof Natural slate RWG Ogee-moulded metal Walling Dry-dash render Windows Timber sash