Portanure Lodge — CLERAUN

Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1875, having flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation with cast-iron railings to parapet, and lean-to extension to rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof to front block, pitched natural slate roof to rear block, with brick chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots and cut limestone coping. Cut limestone eaves course to main block (south); raised cut stone verges to gable ends of block to rear (north). Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone block-and-start quoins and rendered plinth, dressed ashlar limestone facing to front of porch (south) and cut limestone string courses to porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed tripartite French doors to centre bay at first floor level, giving access to roof level of porch. Square-headed door opening to the east face of porch having timber door with overlight. Cut stone step to door. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Ballymahon, overlooking Lough Ree to the south. Yard to rear of house having single-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Gateway to west side of yard having a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and timber double gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard. Square-headed integral pedestrian entrance built into wall to the north side of main gateway having roughly dressed limestone surround and timber door. Walled garden on square-plan to rear (north) having rubble limestone boundary walls. Main gateway to the house to the west comprising a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage to the west. Boat house (13402506) located on shore of Lough Ree to the south.