Rockspring, 4 Ballydawley Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt

Rockspring is an early 19th century house built in a Georgian style, though its appearance has been significantly altered by more recent renovations. It is a three-bay, two-storey house with a rear return. The main entrance features a central, pedimented and pilastered surround, with a six-panelled PVC door. Single twelve-pane double-hung sliding sash PVC windows flank the doorway, with three similar windows on the first floor directly above. The walls are smooth, rendered, and painted, and feature a half-round gutter, a single downpipe, and a fascia with an overhang. The roof is gabled, covered in asbestos slates, and has a chimney stack on each gable. There are windows in the gables, and the rear return mirrors the front elevation. The walls are plastered and painted. A peculiar ground floor bay is located on the north-west gable, featuring an exposed flue stack, small, narrow vertical windows on each side, and a slated roof over a canted bay. Behind the house are one and two-storey outbuildings constructed of black stone random rubble walls with corrugated iron roofs. A three-centre arched opening, brick-trimmed, is present in the two-storey section of the outbuildings, presumably for a coach or trap. A small, abandoned office is situated at the entrance to the yard. The house and outbuildings adjoin a county road.

A plaque inscribed "Erected by John Ekin of 1826" was previously present, but is now missing, as noted in the first survey. The blackstone walls were originally a later insertion. Significant alterations have included plastering the walls, reslating the roof with asbestos, and installing PVC windows within the last ten years. Rockspring appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832. The former owners operated a quarry business, and remnants of a small office are visible at the roadside. A nearby quarry and lime kiln were formerly in operation. The house has changed ownership since the initial survey, and the current owner has undertaken renovations.