Ashgrove, 29 Upper Mealough Road, Carryduff, BELFAST, County Down, BT8 8LR

Detached single-storey direct entry four-bay white-washed (formerly thatched) house, built c.1800, extended to either end. Rectangular on plan facing north and accessed via long avenue to the south of Upper Mealough Road. Vacant for over twenty years with a modern dwelling to the front. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and four redbrick chimneystacks with modern terracotta pots. White-wash over rough-cast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and variety of timber sash and timber casement windows. Front elevation is four windows wide flanked by a vehicular opening to either end. The central section appears to be the original part of the dwelling as evident in the roofing variations. This central section has a central square-headed door opening with replacement timber sheeted door and granite step. To the east is an early 3/6 timber sash window with exposed sash box while to the west is a later 2/1 horizontally glazed timber sash window. The east accretion also has an early 6/3 timber sash window while the west accretion has single-pane timber sash window. The vehicular openings to either end have replacement timber sheeted doors. East gable end is abutted by a further structure with a slightly higher pitched natural slate roof and replacement sheeted timber door. The rear elevation has few window openings while its rough-cast rendered walling is unpainted with some rubblestone walling exposed. West gable abutted by lean-to with corrugated asbestos sheeted roof. Setting: Set on an east-west axis facing north and accessed via long avenue to the south of Upper Mealough Road. Various single-storey outbuildings to the west have rubblestone and massed concrete walls with corrugated asbestos sheeted roofs and sheeted timber doors. Roof Natural slate RWG N/A Walling Rough-cast over rubblestone Windows Timber sash