Moorhill House — CASTLENUGENT

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1815, having two-storey-storey return to rear (northwest) with pitched slate roof. Two-storey extension attached to the northwest end of rear return. Recently renovated. Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building/structure. Hipped natural slate roofs with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with cut stone coping to main block, single rendered chimneystack to rear return. Remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Smooth rendered plinth course to rear. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows having six-over-six panes to ground floor and three-over-six panes to first floor. Metal lattice window to northeast elevation of rear return at basement level. Central elliptical-headed doorway to front elevation (southeast) having replacement timber panelled door, sidelights and petal fanlight over. Flight of cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Granard with complex of associated outbuildings (13401509) to the rear (northwest). Rendered boundary wall to the southwest elevation of house having cut stone coping and elaborate cast- and wrought-iron railings over having vine/leaf and fruit motifs. Pedestrian gateway to the centre of wall comprising a pair of cut stone gate posts having wrought-iron gate. Rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates, and rubble stone boundary walls to site. Main entrance gates to the southeast of house comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone capstones over surmounted by carved stone pineapple finials (possibly both modern replacements) and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates. Rendered boundary walls to either side of gate having cut stone coping over.