Tower Farm, 29 Hilltown Road, Aghacullion, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0PZ

Tower Farm is a one and a half storey gabled farm house dating to around 1840, located at the end of a lane north of Hilltown Road, roughly half a mile west of Bryansford. The house is accompanied by a large two storey outbuilding to its east which appears to predate the house itself.

The front south-facing façade is asymmetrical. To the left of centre stands a projecting two-level bay with a modern timber-panelled and glazed door at ground floor level and a small upper-level window with modern frame above. To the left of this bay is a larger window with modern frame, and two similar windows occupy the space to the right of the bay. The west gable has an upper-level window and a slightly smaller ground floor window, while the east gable is similarly fenestrated. All windows have modern frames. The entire façade is finished in 'salt and pepper' pebbledash render with a bell cast and smooth cement render base, with an eaves course to the front. The roof has a fairly steep pitch and is covered with natural slate, with two rendered chimney stacks to the ridge and a small cast iron skylight to the rear. Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are present, and decorative barges ornament the front bay. Rendered parapets finish the gable ends.

To the rear are two single storey lean-tos. The eastern lean-to has a corrugated iron roof, a small window with modern frame to its east face, and a timber-sheeted door to its west face. The western lean-to has a natural slate roof, a similar timber-sheeted door to its east face, and a window with modern frame. The rear north and west faces each have smaller windows with modern frames.

The large two storey gabled outbuilding to the east features a central segmental carriage arch and a stone staircase to the right of the south façade. A large lean-to section adjoins the west gable, and a single storey gabled section adjoins the east side. The façade is mainly harled with a natural slate roof, though many openings do not appear to be original and the building is in generally poor repair.

Historical records show the house appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1859 as a replacement for an earlier dwelling situated slightly further to the north-west, which is shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. The property was built by a family named Magill, recorded as residents in the 1863 valuation survey, with descendants remaining in possession into the mid-twentieth century. The rear lean-tos may not be original to the house but appear to have been added around 1900. The eastern outbuilding may be older than the house, as it appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map.