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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having a single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south). Now unoccupied. Pitched corrugated metal roof with remains of central ridge cresting and raised rendered verges to either gable end. Three rendered chimneystacks, one to either gable end and one centrally located. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having replacement windows to ground floor openings and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows over to first floor openings. Round-headed doorcase to porch having timber door and plain overlight above. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Castletown Railway Station and to the southeast of Loughanavally. Complex of single-storey rubble limestone outbuildings (southeast and southwest), having pitched corrugated metal roofs and square-headed openings, form forecourt to the south of the house. Further complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (north). Cast-iron double gates to road frontage.

Substantial and well-balanced two-storey house, of probable early nineteenth-century date, which retains much of its early vernacular character despite being out of use. The form of this house is quite unusual in that it has the appearance of a vernacular interpretation of a house from a more formal architectural composition. The corrugated metal roof with the raised verges to either side, suggest that this building was originally thatched. However, the shallow pitch of the roof disputes this. The iron ridge cresting to the roof and the projecting porch adds an architectural feature to an otherwise utilitarian material. The outbuildings to the southeast and southwest sides create a forecourt to the front of this house, which is a typical feature of vernacular buildings in areas of the midlands dominated by pastoral-based agricultural economy. The good quality cast-iron gates to the south, and the further complex of outbuildings to the north, completes this appealing vernacular composition.