Ards House

Detached eight-bay two-storey U-plan outbuilding, built c.1860, with central enclosed courtyard, having three-bay two-storey wing to northwest and six-bay two-storey wing to southeast, and with two-bay single-storey over basement addition to southeast. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Roughcast rendered walls to courtyard, and coursed sandstone rubble walls to northeast, northwest and southeast. Rubble walls to southeast addition. Three-centred integral carriage arch to left-hand-side of southwest elevation, with raised block-and-start surround, segmental arch to centre with raised chamfered stone surround, and chamfered red brick surround to northeast elevation. Pointed segmental-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Segmental-headed doorways with raised chamfered stone surrounds. Oculus vent openings to first floor, with rendered cut-stone surrounds to courtyard and half-dressed voussoirs to northeast. Series of segmental-headed integral arches to courtyard elevations of northwest and southeast wings. Set in overgrown woodland, with friary and church to northeast and road to northwest.