Loughan House

Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built or rebuilt c. 1815. Hipped slate roof with a pair of central ashlar limestone chimneystacks and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, rendered reveals and replacement timber casement windows. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation with carved limestone block-and-start surround with architrave, timber panelled door and with petal fanlight over. Doorway accessed by flight of limestone steps, splayed to base, flanked to either side by rendered parapet walls having chamfered cut limestone coping over and terminated to base by rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered cut limestone capstones over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the northwest of Barry and to the east of Keenagh. Main entrance gates to the southwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having cut limestone capstones and a pair of wrought- and cast-iron gates. Cut limestone wheel guards to external face of piers (west). Gateway flanked to either side by quadrant sections of rendered boundary wall with rubble stone coping. Long approach avenue to house from gateway having wrought-iron flat-bar railings. Wrought-iron ladder over railings with wrought-iron support rail located along avenue. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings (13402301) to rear (north). Wrought- and cast-iron pedestrian gates to east and west of house. Lake to south of house accessed by pedestrian gateway having a pair of cut limestone gate posts and a wrought-iron gate with spear finials. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.