Mount Jessop — MOUNTJESSOP

Complex of outbuildings associated with Mount Jessop House (now demolished), built c. 1860, comprising a detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to the southeast and a detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding adjacent to the northwest. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods; cut stone eaves course and rubble stone chimneystacks to two-storey outbuilding. Roughly dressed and squared limestone construction to two-storey building; roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls to single-storey outbuilding. Roughcast rendered finish to rear elevation (southwest) of two-storey building. Square-headed window openings to two-storey outbuilding having tooled cut limestone sills. Paired segmental-headed carriage arch openings to centre of two-storey outbuilding having flush dressed limestone voussoirs and double leaf timber battened doors. Square-headed door openings having flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, one retaining timber battened door. Segmental-headed carriage arch opening to single-storey outbuilding having double leaf timber battened doors. Located to the rear (southwest) of site of Mount Jessop House (demolished). Gateway to the northwest end of single-storey outbuilding comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone capstones and a pair of modern steel gates with corrugated-metal sheeting. Integral square-headed pedestrian gateway adjacent to northwest, set in rubble stone boundary wall, having modern gate. Ruinous single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to northeast end of rubble stone wall. Rubble stone boundary walls to the northwest and northeast of yard, running towards site of house. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds to the east of Killashee and to the west/northwest of Ardagh.