house — CASTLEREA

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with remodelled gable-fronted porch to centre of front elevation (southeast) and single-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest). Currently disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of red brick chimneystacks having cut stone coping. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof with timber bargeboard to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with ruled smooth cement render finish to front face of porch (southeast). Render failing in places revealing cut limestone quoins to corners and brick reveals to the window openings. Cut stone eaves course to main body of building and to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six to ground floor. Square-headed door opening recessed in porch having timber panelled door and sidelight. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Ardagh. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the south. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the rear. Rendered boundary wall and gate piers to road-frontage. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the northeast, running along road alignment. Gateway to field to the northeast having a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan).