Kilmurry Lodge

Detached five-bay single-storey house over half-basement, built c. 1830, with projecting middle bay and having half-hexagonal bow projection to rear. Sprocketed hipped slate roof with lead ridge capping, overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with render stringcourse between floors, with some ruled-and-lined render to half-basement storey. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and three-over-three pane to basement, with tooled limestone sills. Blind windows to side walls of porch, east gable and some to rear elevation. Some replacement timber and uPVC windows to basement. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door with margined timber two-over-two pane sidelights and margined paned overlight, accessed by flight of cut limestone steps. Outbuildings to east of house, being part-lofted single-storey with pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls and having square-headed door and window openings with replacement battened timber fixtures. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls and gate piers with cut limestone caps and cast-iron gates, to road entrance.

This is an elegantly composed early nineteenth-century house which expresses a sense of grandeur that belies its relatively modest size. This is articulated in its elevated ground floor which is approached by a flight of limestone steps, and which is emphasised by features such as the half-hexagonal bow projection housing the formal drawing room. The building retains timber sash windows and a fine entrance door.