40 Tullykin Road, Tullykin, Killyleagh, Co Down, BT30 9TW

A single storey vernacular house of circa 1820s, greatly extended in organic fashion during the 1980s to link to an adjacent one and a half storey former outbuilding. The property stands on the east side of Tullykin Road, approximately three miles southwest of Killyleagh.

The original house lies to the south with an asymmetrical west-facing front façade. To the left of centre is the main entrance, consisting of a panelled and glazed door with margined paned fanlight. To the left is a sash window with Georgian panes (6/6), with two similar windows to the right of the doorway. The south gable has a very small sash window at attic level, as does the north gable.

To the left is a linking corridor which bridges the gap between the original house and the former outbuilding to the north. This corridor is entirely glazed on the west side and extends from a very large lean-to extension added to the rear of the original house, whose roof rises above the eaves of the original structure. The east façade of the extension has three sash windows (the first and second windows 4/4, the third 1/1). To the right of these windows the extension projects (this is actually the rear of the linking corridor), with a four pane window to the left and a very large glazed section to the right incorporating a glazed door. The façade then turns in chamfered fashion, with two very small single pane windows in this section. Beyond is the rear of the original outbuilding, which at this point (where ground level drops) is one and a half to two storeys, with a modern four pane window to the first floor and one to the ground floor. To the right is a single storey section (another former outbuilding) set further back, with a small six pane window and a projecting chimney breast. A low single storey shed abuts to the right.

The exposed section of the north gable of the one and a half to two storey section has a partly glazed door with a small four pane window to the upper level. The front (west) façade of the outbuildings section has two French door-like windows. To the right is a large lean-to conservatory partly attached to the single storey section and partly to the one and a half to two storey section. Above the lean-to the latter section has a broad modern window, with a further modern window to the right of the conservatory. The exposed section of the south gable of this section has modern windows to ground and upper level. The north gable of the north single storey section has a small stable.

The entire façade is rendered and painted. The roof is covered in natural slate with overhang in places on the former outbuildings. There are six rendered chimney stacks, seven Velux windows to the rear, and two to the conservatory.

Ordnance Survey maps of 1834 confirm a building on this site that matched the size of the original house section. Contemporary valuation records indicate the property was newly built circa 1820s-30s, occupied by Samuel Folley, with an accompanying single storey cow house to the north on the site of the present former outbuildings. By 1860 the resident was Robert McDowell. For much of the 20th century the property was home to the Heaney family but became derelict by the 1970s. The present owner acquired the house in the 1980s and added the large extensions linking the original house to the former outbuildings.