Torboy House

Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1860, having two-storey return to the rear at the northwest corner. Decorative open cast-iron entrance porch to centre of front elevation (southeast). Single-storey single-bay lean-to extension to the northwest elevation of return; three-bay single-storey extension to the east end of rear elevation (northwest). Hipped natural slate roof with lead ridge capping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Central pair of rendered chimneystacks to main block having cut stone coping over, rendered chimneystack to two-storey return, and a pair of diagonally-set rendered chimneystacks to northwest end of northwest lean-to return. Sheet metal/leaded roof to porch. Painted pebbledashed walls with lined-and-ruled render section adjacent to main doorway, behind porch. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (southeast) having timber door with recessed round-headed panels, spider’s web fanlight over, and moulded limestone steps. Timber shutters visible to interior of windows. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Ardagh. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear, comprising a multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the north/northeast, built c. 1820, and a multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west, c. 1860. Pitched natural slate roofs to two-storey outbuilding with raised rendered verges to gable end and with cut stone eaves course; corrugated-metal roof to single-storey outbuilding with central rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to two-storey outbuilding with square-headed window and door openings having limestone sills and remains of timber fittings. Segmental-headed carriage arches some having timber battened doors and some with hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble stone gateway to two -storey range to northeast serving segmental-headed doorway at first floor level. Rubble stone construction to single-storey outbuilding having square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Section of rubble stone wall to the southwest of house having integral square-headed pedestrian gateway with cut stone lintel and wrought-iron gate. Rendered rubble stone boundary walls to rear courtyard. Cast-iron water pump and water trough to rear yard. Gate piers (on square-plan) to the northwest end of lean-to extension to rear at northwest end having hooped wrought-iron gates. Main gateway to the south of house comprising a pair of rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rendered rubble stone boundary wall. Gateway to the south of main gates, at start of approach avenue, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts (on octagonal-plan).