Castleroe Lodge — CASTLEROE WEST

Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1900, retaining early aspect with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre, single-bay single-storey flanking canted bay windows, single-bay single-storey recessed end bays and single-bay two-storey return to rear to east having single-bay two-storey lean-to lower projecting bay to south-east. Extended, c.1990, comprising three-bay single-storey double-pile return to rear to east. Hipped roofs behind parapet walls with slate (lean-to to projecting bay to south-east; gable-ended double-pile roofs to additional return). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to porch behind blocking course (materials not visible). Rendered walls (roughcast to rear to east). Unpainted. Channelled piers to corners. Rendered paired pilasters to porch. Moulded cornices (on consoles to main block). Rendered parapet walls with panels. Square-headed openings (including to canted bay windows to ground floor to main block; shallow segmental-headed to first floor; tripartite arrangement to end bays; round-headed to return). Stone sills. Rendered architraves to first floor. 1/1 timber sash windows (3/6 and 6/6 timber sash windows to side and to rear elevations; uPVC casement windows to additional return). Timber panelled door. Overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Tarmacadam drive to front.Remains of detached three-bay three-storey rubble stone medieval tower house, c.1500, to east with single-bay full-height gabled advanced bay to south. Now in ruins and in use as eye-catcher. Roof now missing (probably originally gable-ended (gabled) to gabled advanced bays). Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Cut-stone surrounds. No fittings.Gateway, c.1900, to east comprising rendered piers with moulded cornices having curved walls.