Doon House

Detached multiple-bay three-storey country house, built c.1800, having later three-bay two-storey block of c.1860 recessed to east elevation, later block having flat-roofed porch addition. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks having string courses and copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered plinth, and chanelled rendered to porch. Round-headed window to middle bay of later block, square-headed elsewhere, all with replacement timber windows and painted sills. Square-headed entrance doorway with glazed timber panelled door. Yard of outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and rendered walls and having square-headed window and door openings with block-and-start limestone surrounds. Set in own grounds and bounded by rubble limestone walls, with gateway to north-west having rendered round-plan piers having conical caps and double-leaf metal gates.

Doon Cottage is an interesting example of a two-phase house, the forms of the two parts contrasting pleasantly. The simplicity of the elevation treatment, the round-headed first floor window and the retention of slate roofs enhances the building. The yard of attendant outbuildings, with some finely constructed structures, adds important context and further interest, and the aesthetic setting of the whole, on Lough Corrib constitutes part of the social history of the landed gentry in the nineteenth century.