Ghan Cottage

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1770. Rectangular-plan, open gabled porch projecting from south elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, uPVC gutters on painted timber fascia. Painted roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six (ground floor), three-over-six (first floor) and two-over-two (north elevation) sliding sash windows; timber casement windows to north. Square-headed door opening set in porch with smooth rendered plinth walls, timber corner posts and carved bargeboards; painted smooth rendered surround, painted timber panelled door with glazed upper panels; square-headed door opening to north, painted smooth rendered soffit and reveals, painted timber door with glazed panels. Set to side of road, garden to south bounded by painted roughcast wall having square gate piers with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gate, gravel path to door; garden to north, ruined building, square-headed gate to boundary wall, painted timber vertically-sheeted door.

Thought to have been built in association with Ghan House to the south, this house forms an important part of Carlingford's architectural past. It has a well-proportioned simple design which is representative of eighteenth century architecture.