Brooklands, 290 Hillsborough Road, Culcavy, Hillsborough, County Down, BT26 6HN

Brooklands is a detached two-storey Queen Anne-style Edwardian house built circa 1910, situated on a large corner site at the junction of Harry's Road and Hillsborough Road in Culcavy. The building follows a U-shaped plan with projecting rectangular bay and bow window to the east, a two-storey canted bay with modern conservatory to the south, and an extended two-storey return to the north.

The roof is hipped, finished in natural slate with exposed rafter tails, terracotta ridge tiles and finials, and five tall brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Rainwater goods are cast-iron ogee with some plastic replacements and cast-iron hoppers. The walls are constructed in English garden wall-bonded red brick with sandstone dressings, rising from a chamfered plinth. Windows throughout comprise a variety of timber-mullioned casements and 1/1 timber-framed sliding sash with horns, all featuring sandstone lintels with chamfered detail and projecting sills.

The principal elevation faces east with an irregular arrangement. The main block's first floor contains paired windows to either side of a central leaded-and-stained glass stairwell window at a lower level. To the ground floor left is a bow window with six openings, the top sections featuring decorative leaded-and-stained glass with a leaded roof. To the right of centre is the main entrance, accessed by three semi-circular stone steps. The entrance comprises a segmental-headed half-panelled double-leaf timber door with a brick surround punctuated by raised sandstone blocks and a large raised keyblock. The doors feature three raised-and-fielded panels with multi-paned sections above and moulded and dentilled sills, fitted with a decorative cast-iron letterbox, knocker, door knob and bell-push. The entrance is flanked by a pair of leaded-and-stained glass timber windows in chamfered surrounds and surmounted by a large segmental-headed timber panelled and dentilled canopy with slightly projecting hood, resting on console brackets with carved trefoil insets. The projecting bay to the right has paired first-floor windows and a segmental-headed casement window to the ground floor with four panes and decorative leaded-and-stained glass top section; sandstone blocks mark the springers with a raised sandstone keyblock.

The south elevation features a two-storey canted bay to the left with chamfered continuous lintels and three decorative carved panels between floors. To the right is a single first-floor window and a modern semi-circular timber conservatory at ground floor level, accessed by two brick steps and designed in a style sympathetic to the house.

The west elevation comprises two gables flanking a recessed bay; the right gable is narrower and half-hipped. The recessed bay contains tripartite segmental-headed leaded-and-stained glass windows to each floor. The right gable has a diminutive first-floor window; the left gable has two first-floor windows. At ground floor right is a raised-and-fielded three-panel timber door with multi-paned top section and corbelled sill, surmounted by a transom light. A large timber conservatory abuts this door and adjoins the modern section of the return to the north. The north elevation has a single ground-floor window to the left and is abutted to the right by the two-storey return, recently extended to the rear. The original section has a window to each floor on its east side; the north elevation has two diminutive first-floor windows to the right and two ground-floor windows, with a skylight to the roof.

The property sits on a large mature site with entrances at both Harry's Road and Hillsborough Road. Replacement red-brick entrance piers mark the Harry's Road entrance, while original red-brick gate piers at the Hillsborough Road entrance feature sandstone caps and chamfered plinths, supporting decorative cast-iron gates. A gravelled driveway leads through lawned and shrubbed gardens on all sides, enclosed by mature trees. The rear garden is enclosed to the north by a painted rendered wall with timber-sheeted pedestrian and vehicular gates. To the rear stands an original slated two-storey outbuilding, much altered with replacement doors and windows and incorporating a modern office; this is abutted to the east by a large modern garage.