Mount Loftus — MOUNTLOFTUS

Detached five-bay two-storey country house, reconstructed post-1934, on a U-shaped plan incorporating fabric of earlier house, built 1906, on site of earlier house, 1750-4, comprising three-bay two-storey central bay with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, single-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking end bays, two-bay two-storey return to north-east, and five-bay two-storey return to north-west terminating in single-bay two-storey higher end bay to north. Pitched slate roofs (gablet over window opening to centre first floor; gabled to end bays) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses, rooflights, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Irregular coursed squared rubble granite walls with rock-faced cut-granite dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourse to porch supporting frieze, carved cornice, and blocking course to parapet. Square-headed window openings (some paired; some camber-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation) with cut-granite sills, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds (some having render over), and one-over-one timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to porch in tripartite arrangement with square-headed flanking window openings, cut-granite Doric doorcase having engaged columns supporting open-bed pediment, timber panelled door having leaded stained glass overlight, and cut-stone sills to flanking openings having fixed-pane fittings with leaded panels. Segmental-headed door opening to rear (north) elevation with rock-faced cut-granite block-and-start surround, glazed timber double doors having sidelights on panelled risers, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds.