Every room, every dimension

The house was designed by Des Ewing Residential Architects, a Belfast practice specialising in high-end residential work across the UK and Ireland. Des Ewing has judged the BBC's House of the Year and the practice was named Residential Architectural Practice of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards 2015, among more than twenty other awards and shortlistings.

Construction was by Alskea Contracts and completed in 2021. The house has an EPC rating of B83.

Source: Des Ewing Residential Architect, "Awards".

The front door opens into an entrance hall with a black slatted timber staircase screen. A glazed Crittall-style partition separates the hall from the main living space, so light passes through the whole depth of the house.

The open-plan kitchen, dining and living room measures 12.47 by 7.21 metres. Full-height sliding doors open onto the terrace. The kitchen has a black island with seating, a marble splashback and a fitted wine store. The dining area seats eight beneath pendant lights. The living area has a gas fire with built-in shelving and a wall-mounted television.

A separate lounge of 7.14 by 3.56 metres provides a second, quieter reception room with a slatted timber screen. The utility room has stacked laundry appliances and a terrazzo floor. The cloakroom has a live-edge oak basin shelf and terrazzo tiling.

The principal bedroom measures 6.5 by 4.1 metres under a vaulted ceiling with twin dormers, a slatted oak headboard wall and a walk-in dressing room with a skylight. Its en suite has terrazzo tiling and an oak vanity.

Bedroom two measures 6.6 by 3.15 metres and bedroom three 3.53 by 3.1 metres. Both are doubles. The family bathroom has a bath with a fluted glass screen, an oak vanity, terrazzo tiling and black fittings.

Remote sliding electric gates with an intercom open onto a resin-bonded driveway for three cars. The rear garden has a lawn and a large stone-walled terrace with a glass balustrade facing the lough, reached directly from the living room. A garden store of 4.14 by 1.65 metres has a remote roller shutter door.