Ballymote House, 84 Killough Road, Ballymote Lower, Downpatrick, BT30 8BJ

Ballymote House is a substantial two-storey late gabled farmhouse dating from around 1835, built in the typical simple late Georgian style. It is situated at the end of a drive to the east of Killough Road, approximately three kilometres south of Downpatrick.

The main house features an asymmetrical west front façade. At the centre of the ground floor is a panelled timber door with decorative margins and an elliptical fanlight with oversized moulded in-out dressings and matching voussoirs. To the right are two sash windows with Georgian panes, and to the left, more widely spaced, are two similar windows. The first floor has five similar but slightly shorter windows. The front façade is finished in painted lined render with in-out moulded quoins.

The south façade is gabled and features one sash window to the right of the ground floor but is otherwise blank. The left side has moulded in-out quoins and is abutted by a gate pillar.

A large full-height late 20th-century return projects from the centre of the rear façade. To the left of the return, on the original rear wall of the house, there is a sash window on both the ground and first floors. To the right of the return is a glazed doorway to the ground floor and a sash window to the first floor. The east face of the return has one sash window to the right on the ground floor and two similar windows to the first floor. The south face has an elliptical-headed panelled door with decorative margins and a radial fanlight, with a sash window to the right. The first floor has a large tripartite window (4/4, 6/6 and 4/4) to the left and a 6/6 window to the right. The north face of the return has a tripartite window to the left of the ground floor, where the centre 6/6 sash is actually a glazed door, and a 6/6 sash window to the right. The first floor has three 6/6 unevenly spaced sash windows. The north gable of the main house has one 6/6 window to the first floor, right of centre, but is otherwise blank, with in-out moulded quoins at the right corner. The walls are finished with smooth lined render.

The entire roof is covered with natural slate. The front section has four unevenly spaced pot-less chimney stacks set on the ridge, and there is one similar chimney stack to the middle of the return ridge. Metal rainwater goods are present.

To the south and west are two-storey outbuildings.

A relatively plain curved gate screen, possibly dating from around the 1870s, is situated at the head of the drive on Killough Road. The screen is curved with a central carriage gate and flanking pedestrian entrances. The low wall is finished in lined render with stone coping. The gate piers either side of the carriage entrance are thick square examples, finished in render with arched panels to three faces, a moulded cornice, base and stone caps. When surveyed in December 1976, stone lion figures were present on each cap. Both the carriage and pedestrian entrances have decorative iron gates, though some decoration is broken off. A cattle grid is fitted to the carriage entrance.