Laurel Lodge — GLENMORE (MOYDOW BY.)

Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1840, with single-bay flat-roofed porch to the centre of the front elevation (south) and two-storey return to the rear (north) at the west corner. Two-bay two-storey block to the re-entrant corner of rear return. Hipped natural slate roofs with overhanging eaves supported on timber brackets. Central pair of rendered chimneystacks to main block, rendered chimneystack rear return and to extension. Roughly squared and roughly coursed masonry walls, formerly roughcast rendered, with roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to porch with dressed limestone cornice and blocking course over. Square-headed window openings with replacement sash windows having tooled limestone sills and flush brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed window opening to front face of porch (south) having replacement tripartite sash windows and stone sill. Square-headed door opening to east face of porch with panelled door having limestone steps. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the east/southeast of Keenagh. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the north of the house, now partially ruinous, comprising a five-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west, roofless multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north and a ruinous single-storey outbuilding to the east. Pitched and hipped natural slate roof to outbuilding to the west; outbuilding to the north now roofless (formerly with pitched roof). Projecting cut stone eaves course to outbuildings to the west and north. Roughly dressed and squared limestone rubble walls with dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Segmental-headed openings to outbuilding to the west and square-headed openings to outbuilding to the north. Dressed limestone voussoirs and surrounds to openings. Wide segmental-headed opening to the centre of the north range, now partially infilled, having dressed limestone voussoirs. Main entrance gates to the south of house comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers (on octagonal-plan) having cast-iron double gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage (west), and to site.