Shawbrook — CARRIGEEN (ARDAGH BY.)

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having later bowed single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch offset close to the centre of the main elevation (southeast). Single- and two-storey extensions to rear, added c. 1960. Single-storey block attached to northeast gable end. Now partially in use as a dance school with associated residential accommodation. Hipped natural slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; walls now overgrown with vegetation. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having glazed door. Timber shutters visible to window interiors. Complex of two-storey outbuildings, c. 1860, arranged around a courtyard to the rear (northwest) having pitched artificial slate roofs, roughly coursed limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings and a segmental-headed carriage arch with timber double doors. Steel-farmed corrugated-metal barn to rear having manufacturer's plate (Smith and Pearson) to front elevation, now in use as a dance studio. Former main entrance gateway to the south of house, erected c. 1880 but now disused, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts having chamfered edges and moulded caps, and having a pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone wall and terminated by squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having capstones over. Post box (13402404) built into boundary pier to the east. Sections of rubble stone boundary walls along road-frontage to the south and west. Pedestrian gateway to the southwest of house comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts with curved heads and a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Legan.