Magheradartin School, 82 Windmill Road, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6NP

Detached two-bay single-storey with attic-storey stone and redbrick former school house, dated 1853. Rectangular on plan with front and rear gabled porches, set on the south side of Windmill Road facing north, extensively renovated c.1995 and 2010. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded ridge tiles, replacement rendered chimneystack and original circular sandstone pots and sandstone coping to either gable end. Replacement cast-iron guttering on cast-iron brackets to redbrick eaves course and cast-iron downpipes. Random rubble snecked basalt walling with redbrick quoins, cement pointing and redbrick window and door surrounds. Square-headed window openings formed in redbrick with mostly original bipartite Gothic-arched latticed iron casement windows on splayed sandstone sills with sandstone hood mouldings. Two-bay front north elevation is three windows wide with off-centre gabled entrance porch. Porch has sandstone coping to the gable with sandstone shield depicting carved crown, monogram ‘D’, ‘MAGHERADARTIN SCHOOL’ and ‘1853’ below. Tudor-arched door opening formed in chamfered redbrick with recessed original vertically-sheeted timber door and sheeted panel above, door opens onto two stone steps. Slender square-headed window opening to both cheeks of porch with single Gothic-arched window with plain glazing. East gable now abutted by modern circular plan extension having a quatrefoil stone opening to the apex and a single lancet window below having plain fixed pane and arched hood moulding. Two-bay south rear elevation is four windows wide with gabled entrance porch to the left end and lean-to conservatory. Central opening has double-leaf timber glazed doors opening into conservatory. Entrance porch has Tudor-arch (as per front porch) with replacement vertically-sheeted door and over-panel, opening onto three stone steps. Single-bay west gable has a square-headed window opening to each level with replacement bipartite pointed-arched window to the attic level. Setting: Enclosed front garden with pedestrian gate to Windmill Road with laneway to the west, enclosed by low rubblestone wall, giving rear access to cobble-lock yard enclosed to the east by multi-bay two-storey rendered double-garage with residential accommodation incorporated, built c.2010. Roof Natural slate Rainwater goods Replacement cast-iron Walling Random rubble basalt / redbrick Windows Original iron casement