F.H.Ebbitt Field Study Centre, Boiler room and store, 54 & 56 Bryansford Village, Ballyhafry, Newcastle, BT33 0PT

The F.H. Ebbitt Field Study Centre comprises a picturesque, slightly Tudoresque former dower house and an associated outbuilding, both now part of an educational facility.

The main building is a long, one and a half storey structure built around 1825 but extensively remodelled around 1860. It features projecting one and a half storey bays and dormers, all with profuse overhanging gables. The property was converted to an education centre around 1974, and a large modern building has been constructed to its immediate rear.

The front façade faces roughly north and is symmetrical. A large central full-height gabled bay contains the main entrance, with panelled double timber front doors set within a Tudor arch-headed opening with a plain fanlight. The doors are flanked by two tall openings with timber apron panels. Above the doors and windows is a stepped drip moulding with label stops. A prominent projecting string course sits directly above the door, and the pediment contains a four-pane fixed light window with decorative painted stone dressing. To left and right of the central bay are two gabled half-dormer windows, each with a two-pane casement window and matching stone dressings. Directly beneath each are four-pane casement windows with drip moulding and label stops. To the far right is a larger one and a half storey projecting bay with a casement window set over two two-pane windows, all with stepped drip moulding. Deep concrete-lined ditches flank the front door.

The east face has two four-paned windows with dressings to the first floor; the ground floor is slightly recessed with a high-level wide modern three-pane window to the left of centre and a door to the right. The roof overhangs the gable with a slightly hipped apex, supported on decorative brackets. The west façade shows the gable of the main block merging with the front bay's side. The overhanging verge and eaves are supported on decorative brackets. The ground floor has a two-pane top-hung window with metal security grill to the left and a two-pane casement window with security grill to the right. The first floor contains a single round-headed window with a tilting lower sash.

The rear (south) façade is complex, showing evidence of extensive alteration and extension. To the left is a single ground-floor two-pane top-hung window. A small single-storey projection with a modern window to its south face and glazed door to its west face sits to the right. Directly above is a single-pane window in a gabled half-dormer. A modern concrete canopy with modern entrance doors sits further right. Beyond this are two half-dormers; the right one matches the original pattern while the left has a modern projecting bay added. A modern entrance door sits beneath the left bay. A further one and a half storey bay to the right has a single first-floor window; a small single-storey flat-roofed extension obscures the lower portion. The roof to the bay overhangs as before. Immediately to the left of this bay is a half-dormer with a casement window and stone surround; below it is a largely blocked window retaining its drip moulding. A small single-storey flat-roofed extension with a central modern door with fanlight and flanking tall thin multi-paned windows sits nearby. Small semicircular-headed window openings sit to left and right of this extension. A large modern window with drip moulding follows. To the far right is another half-dormer with window, stone surround, and blocked lower sash. Below it is a modern door flanked by two small windows with painted surrounds. The east façade recess cuts in here, with a plain square pier supporting the overhanging upper floor.

The façade is rendered and painted. The roof is covered with Bangor Blue slate, with overhanging eaves supported on decorative brackets and rafter ends. Five tall decorative chimney stacks have rendered lower portions and dark red facing brick upper portions.

Immediately to the rear, connected only by the concrete canopy roof covering a walkway, is a large modern two-storey building housing science labs, a lecture hall, and store rooms.

No. 56 Bryansford, immediately to the west, now houses the boiler room and store for the field study centre. Formerly an outbuilding and stables for the dower house, it is a simple gabled single-storey building to the north and two-storey to the south. The north elevation has two double sash windows with broad mullions and decorative drip moulding with label stops. To the far left it merges with the blank wall of a flat-roofed garage. The east face is blank to the first floor with the flat-roofed garage's blank side at ground floor. The south face has a large door opening at ground floor and a narrow door opening at first floor; a modern concrete stair rises to the first-floor door, with narrow slit windows on either side. The roof is finished in Bangor Blue slate with two stainless steel flues emerging close to the ridge on the south side.