Ardagh Cottage

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with gabled porch and two-storey lean-to to rear (north) and single-storey lean-to to side (west). Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods, bargeboards to porch and rear extension. Roughcast rendered walls with harp motif to porch. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows having concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and stone steps. Limestone boundary walls with wrought-iron gates. Two-storey over basement rubble stone former outbuilding to rear, now in domestic use.

A well portioned house which is retains an interesting harp motif. This motif, of a winged maiden harp surrounded by a garland of shamrocks, is an unusual addition. The harp symbol is a traditional symbol of Ireland and has been for hundreds of years. The winged maiden harp was a symbol of the United Irishmen in 1798 and used on their medals and flags. However, the winged maiden harp was also used as a British symbol of Ireland from c.1690 and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, but this version unusually had a crown. The Nationalist Celtic Revival, Home Rule movement, Land League and Ancient Order of the Hibernians all utilised the traditional symbols of Ireland, including the harp. This building may have functioned as some kind of a meeting house in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.