The Rectory — Ardagh

Detached three-bay three-storey over basement former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1823, with single-bay single-storey gabled porch to the front elevation (north). Now disused. Hipped slate roof with centrally placed rendered chimneystack on L-shaped plan, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, with chamfered dressed limestone string course at basement levels. Render coming away in places, exposing rubble stone construction beneath. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and now with painted boards to imitate windows. Paired window openings to the central bay at ground floor of rear (south) elevation. Rendered lined-and-ruled walls to porch, with square-headed entrance opening to south elevation having timber panelled double door. Former segmental-headed entrance opening evident behind porch. Accessed via flight stone steps with cast-iron handrail. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the northwest of Ardagh with modern house to grounds. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding/stable block to the west having hipped natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with remains of timber battened shutter and timber sliding sash windows. Oculus to first floor. Coursed limestone boundary walls to road-frontage (east). Main entrance gateway to the east having a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with stepped capstones, cast-iron double leaf gates, and stone livestock grid.