Nut Grove, 19 Nutgrove Road, Annadorn, Downpatrick, Co Down, BT30 8QN

Nut Grove is a large two-storey gentleman's residence of circa 1845-50 with a hipped roof and projecting entrance bay to the front, displaying partial Italianate features. The house occupies a hollow to the south-east of Nutgrove Road, approximately 3.5 miles west of Downpatrick, with a terraced garden bank to the north. It stands on the site of an earlier Nut Grove House, a large single-storey dwelling of probable early 18th-century construction. A large three to four-storey corn mill, probably dating from the late 1700s, formerly stood to the west of the house but was demolished in the 1970s.

The front north façade is symmetrical, with a full-height hipped roof bay at centre. The ground floor of this bay contains the main entrance, comprising a panelled door with three-pane sidelights flanked by battered and fluted Doric three-quarter column jambs. These support an entablature above which are three semicircular fanlights with moulded archivolts, the central fanlight being larger and positioned directly over the door. The first floor of the bay features a joined group of three sash windows with semicircular arch heads and moulded architraves, each with 2/2 horizontal glazing bars, resting on a sill course with moulded panels and a course below. The bay is bordered by moulded quoins. The ground floor is finished in rusticated render and the first floor in plain render.

To either side of the bay on the main front façade are two windows per floor. The ground floor windows have identical Georgian-paned sash frames (6/6) with moulded surrounds and a moulded entablature above, while first floor windows rest on a sill course with panels as in the bay. The front façade is finished as the bay, with in- and out-quoins to the first floor.

The short east façade is finished in lined render with in- and out-quoins, containing two windows to each floor identical to those of the main section of the front façade, though the first-floor window to the left is shorter than that to the right. The west façade repeats this arrangement with identical ground floor windows.

The rear elevation comprises three two-storey gables, with the second and third abutted by a large two-storey gabled return. The first gable to the left has two sash windows to each floor as on the east and west façades. To its right is the large two-storey return, which has a partly glazed doorway and modern window to the ground floor on its west face, and two sash windows to the first floor. The east side of the return has been extended with a two-storey lean-to, creating an uneven appearance to the gable end. Due to tree proximity, the east face of the lean-to cannot be seen, but internal evidence and tree growth suggest no openings exist on this side except a flat-roofed dormer. The south-facing gable of the return has a single-storey gabled projection to the left with a small high-level window to its gable, and to the right of the main return gable is a larger ground floor window. Both have modern frames with Georgian-like panes. The rear elevation is finished in a mixture of unpainted lined render and rough cast.

The front portion roof is hipped with gables to the rear; the entire roof is slated. Four chimney stacks are present: two rendered (one centred on the main section of the roof, one centred on the central rear gable) and another plainer stack to the main gable of the return. Cast iron rainwater goods predominate. Immediately to the rear of the return is a former mill race. Beyond this is a large collection of rubble-constructed one and one-and-a-half storey outbuildings with slated gabled roofs and various openings.