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Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1914, on a rectangular plan. For sale, 2009. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles centred on paired cement rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Central door opening not visible. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having ivy-covered gabled capping.

A house representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of the rural environs of Carracastle with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact rectilinear plan form; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.