Ballyward House, 2 Castlewellan Road, Ballyward, Castlewellan, Co Down, BT31 9RL

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey rendered early-nineteenth century house, with two-storey return, formerly a shop and post-office. Skewed L-shaped on plan facing south and located on a corner site opposite Dromgooland Parish Church with front railed garden, extensive gardens to the east and a two-storey derelict coach-house to the north. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and three rendered profiled chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots rising from all gables. Replacement plastic guttering to rendered eaves course. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and horizontally-glazed timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Symmetrical three-bay two-storey front elevation having a central fixed stair hall window with coloured glass margin lights and 2/2 timber sash windows to remainder. Three-centred arched door opening with moulded archivolt rising from moulded render pilasters. Tripartite timber doorcase with four panelled door having bolection mouldings, brass furniture and flanked by fixed pane etched glass sidelights in turn flanked by slender scribed pilasters. Plain lintel cornice and tripartite fanlight over. Door opens onto replacement tiled front area within front garden. West gable is set at an obtuse angle to the façade with the return continuing by a further two bays. Horizontally-glazed 1/2 timber sash windows to gable and return with an enlarged square-headed former shop display window having a replacement central window flanked by tripartite arch-headed fixed-pane windows. Rear elevation abutted by two-storey return with a central stair hall window, as per front elevation and flat-roofed porch to the re-entrant angle. East gable has a single off-centre window opening at first floor level with horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash window. At ground floor level is a square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door opening onto a concrete step and granite flagstone. Setting Located on a corner site on the north side of Ballyward Road and to the east of Station Road overlooked by Drumgooland Parish Church to the west (HB17/10/008). Geometric clay tiled footpath to front garden enclosed by wrought-iron railings extending across the west side elevations. Derelict roofless rubblestone former coach-house located along Station Road having elliptical-headed brick arched openings and a loading bay to the south gable. Between the south gable of the coach-house and the rear gable of the return is a vehicular opening with timber gates providing access to the rear yard and landscaped gardens to the east. To the rear of the house is a diminutive single-storey rendered structure reputed to be a former bath-house having pitched natural slate roof. Roof Natural slate Walling Painted render Windows Timber RWG uPVC