6 Cochranstown Road, Dundrod, Crumlin, County Antrim, BT29 4JF

A detached multi-bay two-storey farmhouse built circa 1850, situated on an elevated site to the south of Cochranstown Road and accessed by a gravel lane. The building is constructed of rubblestone with lime render and retains original fabric and traditional materials, though it has deteriorated and is currently vacant. A 20th-century prefabricated house in its setting detracts from its character.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing north, with a pitched natural slate roof fitted with black clay ridge tiles. A single rendered chimneystack rises from the roof, and decorative pierced timber bargeboards ornament the west gable. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets sits at the brick eaves course, with cast-iron downpipes.

The front elevation is five windows wide with an off-centre square-headed door opening. Windows have square-headed openings with redbrick surrounds and sandstone sills. Early timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes, cylinder glass and no horns feature throughout: 2/2 sashes to the first floor and 6/6 to the ground floor. The original timber panelled door has four flat panels, bolection mouldings and iron door furniture.

The east gable faces onto the rear access lane, with off-centre window openings to each floor. The rear elevation is four windows wide, with 2/2 timber sash windows to the first floor and a single fixed-pane timber window to the ground floor. A gable-fronted rear entrance porch abuts the rear elevation, roofed with artificial slate and roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles. The porch features a single-pane timber sash window to the gable and a square-headed door opening to the west cheek with an original timber sheeted door.

A single-storey byre with a circular rubblestone pier embedded into the corner abuts the west gable. A lofted rubblestone outbuilding set perpendicular to the rear of the house has a pitched natural slate roof and timber sheeted doors accessed by a flight of concrete steps. A large lean-to structure with corrugated iron roof abuts the rear of this outbuilding.

The farmhouse first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858, replacing an earlier building depicted on the first edition map of 1832–33 as an oblong structure situated on the site of the now-dilapidated eastern outbuilding. The property was valued at £5 in the Griffith's Valuation of 1859 and was let by the Marquis of Hertford to William Watters, a local farmer. Watters occupied the property until his death in 1888, leaving his farm and effects of £288 to his daughter Mary Jane. Around 1895, Mary Jane married Robert John Graham. The 1901 Census describes the farmhouse as a second-class dwelling of five rooms with farm buildings including a stable, cow house, dairy, two piggeries and a barn contained in the eastern outbuilding and possibly the western outbuilding, which may have been constructed at that time, first appearing on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1919–20. Mary Jane Graham remained at the farm at least until 1911. Robert Graham died in Belfast in 1932, though it is not known whether he retained the property. The modern barn at the rear was constructed after 1961, as it does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of that year. The building is not listed and does not meet the criteria for listing due to deterioration and loss of historic fabric and detailing.