Castlewilder

Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1715 and altered c. 1880, having central single-bay two-storey gable-fronted bay to the front elevation (northeast) with two-bay single-storey lean-to extension attached to the northwest side. Pitched natural slate roof with over hanging eaves (to three sides – southeast gable end, northeast and southwest elevation) supported on timber brackets, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (northwest and southeast). Timber bargeboards and timber drop finial to gable apex to southeast gable end. Terracotta ridge cresting to projecting central bay. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed diminishing window openings to front elevation having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows at second floor level; four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows or replacement window openings at first and ground floor level, all having tooled stone sills. Replacement window fittings to rear (southwest) and to gable ends. Square-headed door opening to the southeast face of projecting central bay, probably moved, having carved lugged limestone surround with architrave and moulded lintel, and with replacement door and sidelight. Set well back from road in elevated location to the south of Legan and to the northeast of Abbeyshrule. Complex of outbuildings (13402322) to the north/northwest.