17 Lower Clay Road, Clay, Killinchy, Co. Down, BT30 9PL

Small, single storey vernacular house set on a rise on the N side of the Lower Clay Road, c.2.5 miles S of Killinchy. The front (E) façade has a left of centre panelled door (with semicircular arch heads to panels) with fanlight. To the left of the door is a sash window with horizontal glazing bars (almost all windows have similar frames). To the right of the door are two further windows. The S gable has a small gabled outbuilding attached with natural slates to its roof, a rough cast façade and a timber sheeted door to E and to W. The N gable has a small upper level window with plain sash frame. To the rear there is a right of centre door characteristic of the ‘direct entry’ type of vernacular layout. To the left of this are three windows, as front but smaller. To the right of the doorway is a similar window. The façade is finished in rough cast and white washed to all sides bar the S gable. The gabled roof is covered in natural slate and has three yellow brick chimney stacks. Cast iron rw goods. Wrought iron garden gate to NE corner of house (of a design quite common in this area). Similar but larger gates to vehicle entrance to road side. Much plainer wrought garden gate to E side of outbuilding to S. Further single storey outbuildings to N of house, mainly rubble built with sandstone quoins.