Bryansford Cottage, 31 Burrenreagh Road, Bryansford village, Aghacullion, Castlewellan, Co Down, BT31 9HH

Bryansford Cottage is a substantial one and a half storey picturesque house located on the west side of Burrenreagh Road, just north of Bryansford village and two miles south of Castlewellan, County Down. The building appears to be mid 19th century in style, though it may represent a remodelling of a pre-1834 dwelling. The east side of the building sits directly onto the roadside.

The front south elevation is divided into two sections. The main house to the centre and right is generally symmetrical, featuring a relatively large single storey porch at its centre with a panelled timber entrance doorway on its east face. A large sash window with Georgian panes (8 over 8) is set into the south gable of the porch. To left and right of the porch, a lean-to veranda roof extends, supported on slim tree-trunks in the cottage orné style. Beneath the veranda on either side of the porch are large four-light French doors or windows. To the first floor are three half-dormers with steeply pitched gabled roofs with overhangs, each containing modern window frames with Georgian-like panes. To the right of the main façade, attached to the east gable, is a single storey section with a hipped roof featuring a sash window and merging with a garden wall that has an arched pedestrian gate. The far left of the front elevation is complex. A single storey hipped roof section sits at the west gable with a sash window to the south face and a panelled timber door to the west face. To the north this links to a two storey gabled wing with a ground floor sash window, directly above which is a gabled half-dormer with a matching window frame. To the right of this is a very small two-pane casement window. The façade then sets back slightly and rises above the main roof line, containing a narrow six-pane window.

The west façade is double pile, with two sash windows (matching those to the front) on the ground floor and another to the left on the first floor. The rear north façade has a complex appearance suggesting additions over time. To the far left, the single storey hipped roof section extends around from the east gable, with two modern-framed windows. This links to a larger single storey lean-to portion whose roof connects to the main house roof at a slightly shallower pitch, containing a modern casement window, a modern glazed door, and a large modern square bay window. To the immediate right, a large two storey gabled return has a large modern window on the ground floor to the left, then a modern doorway beneath a hood porch. Two modern windows occupy the first floor. This gable has been extended both east and west with timber-constructed portions rising above the original eaves level into flat-roofed dormers. The eastern extension turns at a right angle to form a timber dormer over the neighbouring single storey lean-to, containing three modern windows. The western extension links into the double pile wing forming the west elevation. The right hand edge of the gabled return is abutted by a single storey lean-to against the east face of the double gabled wing.

The façade is finished in roughcast render and painted. The roof is covered in natural slate with a slight overhang and pierced barges. Four evenly spaced brick chimney stacks to the main roof feature coping and matching octagonal pots, with a similar stack to the gable of the return carrying a short single pot. To the north end of the double pile wing is a tall rendered stack with tall mismatched pots. A small cast iron skylight is located to the rear. Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are present throughout.

To the rear of the property is a yard containing a two storey gabled outbuilding to the north. This is rubble-built with a slated roof and various window and door openings to the front (south), some of which appear modern. The right hand side façade projects with a gabled half-dormer featuring a timber-sheeted loft door. The outbuilding roof has an uneven pitch and from the north the building reads as single storey, with three doors and three windows on this elevation, the leftmost window being a large modern projecting oriel window. To the east the yard is enclosed by a high rubble wall with square gate pillars and timber gates. A further largely open yard extends to the north. A large garden is located to the front of the property.