29 Bryansford village, Ballyhafry, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0PT

A picturesque rubble-built house of one and a half storeys, gabled, and part of a semi-detached pair, possibly dating from before 1834. The building stands in Bryansford village in the Ballyhafry townland.

The front south-east façade is symmetrical. At its centre is a gabled porch with a recent panelled door and fanlight featuring patterned glass. To the left is a sash window with vertical glazing bars (two panes over two) and brick dressings in light-coloured mortar, topped by eyebrow moulding; these bricks appear relatively recent. A similar window stands to the right of the porch. The north-east gable contains an upper-level window comparable to those on the front but without the moulding. The main façade is of dark fieldstone rubble with granite quoins. An exposed section of the rear façade is finished in cement render. Both the main and porch roofs feature overhangs with plain barges and are covered in natural slate. A single rendered chimney stack rises from the centre of the main roof ridge, either recently replaced or re-rendered. Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are present. The front garden is enclosed by a low rendered wall.

The property underwent thorough renovation around 1984–85, with the addition of a very large modern two-storey extension to the rear with a shallow gabled roof and cement render façade, which has effectively doubled the building's size. A Velux window has been added to the rear.

Buildings are recorded at this site on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map, likely corresponding to the houses seen today and possibly forming two of the seventeen cottages in Bryansford noted in the 1836 Ordnance Survey Memoirs. The properties may well have been built as labourers' cottages for workers on the Roden Estate. The 1863 valuation records the two semi-detached houses with notably different valuations: one at £1 5 shillings and the other at 15 shillings. The residents at that date were Mary McAnally and John Cunningham. The interiors were modernised during the 1984–85 renovation.