Ivy Cottage in Drummullagh

Detached four-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1830. Return with lean-to corrugated asbestos roof to rear (north), range of single-storey outbuildings to west with single-pitch profiled metal roof. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, tiled verges, unpainted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round uPVC gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to front elevation, six-over-three to rear elevation, casement windows in return and to gable, nine-pane inward-opening casements to attic north elevation. Square-headed door opening; painted timber four-panel entrance door with carved moulding to framing, bipartite plain glazed overlight; painted timber double doors with tripartite overlight to east end of front elevation, lower panels vertically-sheeted, upper panels glazed and horizontally sub-divided. Set in own grounds with outbuildings to north and west, landscaped front garden to south, central concrete path leading from hooped wrought-iron pedestrian gate at roadside, painted rendered low-level boundary wall.

This appealing house is considerably enhanced by its garden. original timber sliding sash windows survive and the carved detailing on the entrance door adds additional interest. Multi-pane casement windows on the rear elevation at attic level are of particular interest.