69 Bryansford village, The Village Lane, Aghacullion, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0PT

Edwardian Domestic Revival style dwelling of circa 1900, located on the west side of Village Lane in Bryansford, north of the main road through the village.

The building originated as a semi-detached pair of picturesque Edwardian houses, which were amalgamated into a single property around the 1950s. A large modern extension was added to the rear in 1997-98.

The front (east) façade is symmetrical. On the far left is a decorative lean-to open porch with a tiled roof continuing the pitch of the main roof. The porch roof is supported on timber posts with decorative pierced brackets rising from a rubble base with sandstone coping. A short timber balustrade stretches between the outer and respondent posts. The porch roof has a slight overhang with plain barges, and in the half-tympanum between the roof and main wall there is timber framing with plaster mouldings. Within the porch is a timber sheeted doorway with bevelled sandstone dressings.

To the right of the porch are twinned windows with Edwardian timber frames with top openers, dressed in red sandstone and resting on a sandstone cill course. Directly above is a small hipped roof half-dormer with a single window similar in style but much smaller. The right-hand half of the front façade mirrors the left side but handed, with the doorway within that porch blocked up with rubble matching the façade.

The front façade is constructed of dark fieldstone rubble with rock-faced granite quoins. The south gable has a single ground floor window as on the front, with a broader first-floor window of modern appearance. Above this, at the apex of the gable, is brick, above a course of sandstone. The north gable has a similar arrangement except the upper window is a three-light casement frame, and the apex has moulding similar to that on the porches.

The rear features a large full-height gabled return added circa 1998, with a rendered façade, tiled roof and modern-style windows and doors. The exposed left section has a glazed door to the ground floor with brick dressings and a small sash window to the right. The exposed main rear façade to the far right has a timber sheeted door with brick dressings.

The roof of the original section is tiled with a slight overhang and plain barges. Decorative ridge tiles with gable finials are present. There is a tall Tudoresque chimney stack. Cast iron rainwater goods to the original house include square and shaped guttering.

The building probably began life as a pair of dwellings for workers connected with the Roden Estate around 1900. Prior to this, the site was occupied by a longer row of dwellings shown on the 1834 and 1859 Ordnance Survey maps. The dwellings were likely amalgamated around 1950, when a now-demolished extension was added to the rear. The current extension dates from 1997-98.