Former Dundrod National Agricultural School, Leathemstown Road, Dundrod, Co Antrim

Small and relatively plain single storey gabled school house of 1847, now a Sunday school, whose bellcote and chimney stacks have been removed in relatively recent years. The school sits to the E of the crossroads in the tiny hamlet of Dundrod. It is adjacent to the Presbyterian church. The front elevation faces to E-NE but is referred to as E. To the centre of the symmetrical E elevation is a projecting gabled porch. The front door is plain and has vertical boarding. Directly above the door is a small slightly recessed panel inscribed with ‘Dundrod National School’. The N and S sides to the porch each have a tall narrow 6/6 sash window. A small bellcote, which was inscribed with a date of 1847 has been removed (it was still present in 1972). The upper panes to the upper sash have an irregular ‘brick’ proportion’. To the left and right are two windows each with a 16 pane ‘bottom hung’ tilting window. The N gable is blank. A small lean-to extension was removed some time after 1972. The S gable is much obscured by a small lean-to projection but the remainder of the face is blank . The east face of the lean-to has a timber sheeted door while the S face is blank and the W face has a blind window opening. The lean-to is set back from the main façade but merges with the rear elevation. The rear elevation has five evenly spaced paired sash windows. As before these are 6/6 and again the upper panes to the upper sash have a ‘brick’ proportion. The walls are finished in plain render with a painted plinth. The roof was recently covered with asbestos free slates. Gable chimney stacks have also recently been removed. Rw goods are PVC. The roof has a pronounced overhang and the eaves and soffits are finished with plain boarding.