39 Ringsend Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3QQ

A single-storey two-bay mid-nineteenth century vernacular direct-entry farmhouse, largely modified c.1940. Rectangular linear plan form extended to the south with a one-and-a-half storey unit; further adjoining stable block to the north. Forming part of a small complex of farm buildings arranged around a walled concrete forecourt. Located off Ringsend Road to the north, approximately five miles south west of Dromara. Pitched corrugated iron roof with corrugated ridging to single-storey bays; cement skews smooth render chimneystack with corbelled cap and single plain clay pot. Pitched natural slate roofing with clay ridge tiles to raised left bay. Painted roughcast rendered walling with smooth projected plinth. 2/2 timber sliding sash windows with vertical glazing bars, horns and replacement concrete cills with smooth raised reveals (unless otherwise stated). Painted timber sheeted front door with plain raised rendered reveals set into windbreaker porch with catslide corrugated-iron roof. The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged on a slightly inclining site from right to left. Windbreaker porch central to single-storey portion , flanked by single windows. Timber top-hung casement window to raised bay. The left gable comprises two attic timber sliding sash windows (behind storm glazing) with plain reveals. The rear elevation is asymmetrically arranged; small single-pane timber framed window right of centre flanked by single windows at varying cill and head levels; plain reveals. Two blocked up windows to the raised portion. Blank right gable with apex chimney. Abutted by single-storey stable block; pitched corrugated-iron roof; concrete-block walling; steel-framed windows where existing; timber sheeted doors addressing the forecourt. Setting Rural setting not visible from the main road. Parallel single-storey outbuilding opposite the principal elevation; pitched corrugated iron roofing with cement skews and cement rendered walling with timber sheeted doors with strap hinges. Internal exposed rough-hewn timber collar-beam truss and purlin roof structure, some replacement sawn timbers with a variety of timber peg and metal bolt fixings. Larger outbuilding with rear lean-to abutment built c.1940; corrugated asbestos roofing, cement rendered walling and steel framed windows. Twentieth century entrance gates set back from main road; dry-dash squared piers with smooth banding, moulded cornicing terminated with smooth rendered square cap with adjoining dry-dash sweeping walls with weather cement coping and mild-steel gates decorated with castings, ball-terminus and scrolls. Long lane bypassing modern dwellings leading to farmhouse; site bounded by twentieth century wall enclosing concrete forecourt; field gates carried by angular cement rendered piers. Concrete drinking trough fixed to south perimeter wall. Roofing: Corrugated iron Walling: Cement rendered Windows:Timber sliding sash RWG: Metal