Melrose — Ardagh

Detached three-bay two-storey former steward's/agent’s house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1863, with advanced gabled bay with canted bay window to the south end of the main elevation (east), single-storey canted corner porch and gabled half dormer window to attic. Now in use as private house. Pitched natural slate roofs, with two decorative yellow brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and pierced decorative timber bargeboards to gables. Hipped slate roofs to porch and canted bay window. Snecked rock-faced stone walls with dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Carved limestone scrolled panel with heraldic shield and moulded cornice to front elevation, displaying an open hand palm up, and three curled feathers. Pointed segmental-arch window openings to upper floor and attic, square-headed windows to ground floor. Chamfered dressed limestone window surrounds with stone sills and replacement windows. Shouldered entrance opening to porch, with chamfered dressed limestone surround and timber battened door, accessed via stone step. Flanked by shouldered window opening with chamfered dressed limestone surround, and timber frame window. Set back from the road, with landscaped garden to front. Random rubble stone boundary wall to road frontage having chamfered dressed limestone coping, with wrought-iron gates. Complex of single and single-storey with attic level outbuildings to the rear (west). Located to the north of the centre of Ardagh.