74 Dromore Road, Drumadoney, Dromara, Dromore, County Down, BT25 2NH

A two-storey two-bay hearth-lobby vernacular farm house pre-dating 1830 with additional two-storey bay added c.1850. Linear plan form with single-storey stores and byres to either end. Located at the end of a short private lane; now lined with two modern dwellings. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles; some artificial slate replacement. Rough-cast rendered walling; projected plinth. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. 2/2 timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars; masonry cills. Replacement timber sheeted front door with central glazed panel; metal grille embedded into the ground. The rear door c.1930 has an elliptical glazed opening embraced by timber mouldings with three tall moulded panels to the lower portion; flanked by rectangular side lights. The principal elevation faces south-east and is asymmetrically arranged comprising two original bays on the left with an extended two-storey bay to the right. The front door is located right of centre with two ground and first floor windows aligned to the left. The first floor left window is a replacement casement. The right hand bay comprising an asymmetrically arranged ground floor and replacement 1/1 timber sliding sash first floor window. The left gable is blank. The ground floor is abutted by a single-storey concrete block outbuildings; mono-pitch corrugated iron roofing and stepped into the landscape extending beyond the line of the building; various timber sheeted doors, some with strap hinges; one window blocked up. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged. The door is located left of centre (in the additional bay) with two ground floor windows to the right and one to the left. Two first floor windows to the right with a single wall-headed dormer window to the left. The right elevation is abutted a single-storey byre with a small fixed window on the north-west face and a door on the south-west face. Setting: The farmhouse is embedded into a sloping site largely partially screened from view on approach. The front faces directly on to the yard which serves several outbuildings ranging from single-storey rubble-masonry to corrugated-iron barns. The rear elevation addresses a more formal garden arrangement with rural landscape beyond. Several modern dwellings and modern agricultural units are located in the adjacent fields. Roofing: Natural slate/artificial slate Walling: Rough-cast Windows: Timber sliding sash RWG: Cast-iron