Rockfield, 29 Greengraves Road, Dundonald, County Down, BT16 1UZ

Rockfield is a two and-a-half-storey five-bay Georgian house of the 18th century, situated at the end of a long driveway on the north side of Greengraves Road, east of Dundonald. The building is now vacant and partially derelict. It has a rectangular plan form with numerous historic and modern abutments to the sides and rear.

The principal front elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged. It features a hipped natural slate roof with leaded ridges and hips, a diminutive leaded parapet (partially removed) over a moulded cornice at eaves level, and concealed leaded gutters with uPVC replacement hoppers and downpipes. Rendered chimney stacks without pots rise from the roof. The walling is painted roughcast. An Ionic portico with smooth columns rising to an entablature and surmounted by decorative iron railing dominates the centre, now infilled with a modern door and side panels. The portico is served by stone steps with modern handrails, with a modern ramped access to the left featuring timber railing. The entrance comprises a wide timber front door with bolection moulded lower panels, a glazed upper panel with side lights, and a half circle batwing fan light over.

The front elevation is symmetrically arranged with the entrance located centrally and flanked by two windows either side. Five windows occupy the first floor above ground floor openings. A pediment surmounts the central bay with moulded coping and a central oculus with moulded surrounds. Windows are 1/1 timber sliding box sash with horns, now generally boarded over, with painted masonry cills.

The north elevation is blank and abutted by a historic two-storey two-bay gable-ended wing to the left, significantly extended to the north by a single-storey structure over basement containing a modern nursing home. The east face of the two-storey wing is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension of circa 1960.

The rear elevation faces west and is largely symmetrically arranged, matching the principal elevation in character. It is abutted centrally by a subservient two-storey hipped return with round-headed casement windows and high-level horizontal rectangular windows. Two steel-framed bipartite roof lights occupy the rear, with the right hand roof light removed.

The south elevation is asymmetrically arranged with bipartite timber glazed windows to the left side of both ground and first floors. The right side is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension with parapet dating to circa 1960.

The house stands at the end of a curving wooded driveway. At the entrance to the driveway is a single-storey hipped roof gate-lodge of circa 1850. The immediate setting comprises a sloping lawn to the front and a large yard to the rear accessed via large gated sandstone piers, the gates having been replaced. The outbuildings to the rear have been converted to residential use, with the northern block replaced with modern apartments. Adjoining the house to the north is a large residential home, now vacant. Various modern outbuildings are located to the south. The rear yard is partially enclosed by walls of the former gardens to the east, which include an original arched gate opening. Beyond the immediate grounds extends open rural landscape and wooded areas.

Several scheduled monuments are located in close proximity to Rockfield: a Medieval Church and Graveyard (DOW005:033), a Holy Well (DOW005:044), the Kempe Stones (DOW005:028), and an Anglo Norman Village (DOW005:064).