Rademan House, Ballynahinch Road, Rademon, Crossgar, BT30 9HS

Rademan House is a large two-storey country house with a hipped roof, located on the south side of the Ballynahinch Road approximately 2.5 kilometres west of Crossgar. It stands within its own small estate.

The house assumed its present form in the 1950s when architect Claud Phillimore remodelled the fire-damaged remains of an earlier three-storey residence with two-storey wings, probably dating from the early 1700s but much extended and embellished during Victorian times. Phillimore's intervention created the current composition: a central bay with recessed side wings of similar height, flanked by single-storey, pavilion-like front projections (one of which serves as a garage). The façade is lined rendered and the roof is slated.

The front (north) elevation is symmetrical. The central bay contains a panelled and half-glazed front door set within a semi-circular arch-headed opening with a plain fanlight. Above the arch is a split pediment, each side supported on a decorative console bracket. The moulded stone door surround rises from a plain blocking stone. A flat-roofed canopy, supported on plain Tuscan order columns, shelters the door and the short bridge spanning the basement ravine below. Flanking the doorway are two sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6). The first floor has five evenly spaced sash windows of similar character, as does the basement level. The west face of the basement projection on the left side contains a 3/3-sash window. The left projecting bay has two sash windows; the right projection contains a large up-and-over garage door. The recessed wings display three small, four-pane octagonal windows each at first-floor level.

The east elevation features a two-storey flat-roofed semi-circular bay with three evenly spaced 6/6-sash windows at ground and first-floor levels. Below these windows is a narrow cantilevered concrete balcony with a modern steel guardrail. To the right of the bay is a small flat-roofed extension with a shallow three-pane window above its roof; its east wall is blank. The north wall of this extension contains a modern window, and to its right is a door with a four-pane fanlight (positioned on the extreme left of the main north façade).

The south façade is symmetrical, with a tall door at its centre set in a tall opening matching the window openings but with a moulded surround. To the left are two tall windows (9/12) with low cills, followed by two further sash windows (6/6) which are much smaller. The windows to the right of the doorway mirror those to the left. In front of these windows is a balcony or terrace with a short flight of steps featuring curving handrails. The first floor contains nine 6/6-sash windows, with the five central windows evenly spaced and those to left and right more widely spaced.

The west elevation contains a two-storey semi-circular bay matching that on the east elevation, with ground-floor windows having slightly lower cills and a short flight of steps leading down from the balcony on the left side. To the left of the bay is a PVC top-hung window. At the far left, the west side of the single-storey extension has two sash windows.

The main roofs are covered in natural slate with hipped ends. Two tall, symmetrically placed chimney stacks rise to the ridge line of the highest roof.