Turnpike Cottage, 131 Hillsborough Road, Dromore, Co. Down, BT25 1QW

Detached single-storey pebble dash rendered former toll house, built c.1740. T-shaped on plan facing east with an advanced three-sided canted bay, lean-to extension to rear and sheeted timber entrance porch to north side elevation. Now boarded up and for sale. Hipped natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, central rendered chimneystack and further rendered redbrick chimneystack rising from north side elevation. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Pebble dash render walling. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Symmetrical single-storey front east elevation with central advanced three-sided canted bay having slate covered cement ridges. South side elevation is blank, fronting directly onto Milebush Road. West rear elevation abutted by lean-to extension with various square-headed window openings having metal and timber casement windows. North side elevation abutted by timber-framed vertically-sheeted entrance porch having pitched slate roof and in poor condition. Square-headed door opening to the north side elevation with vertically-sheeted timber door opens directly into timber porch. Setting Corner-sited on the west side of Hillsborough Road with its south side elevation fronting directly onto Milebush Road. Gravel front area separated from the main Hillsborough Road by small grass margin and in use as general parking area. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Pebbledash Windows Square-headed boarded up