Prospect House — Omeath

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1740, no longer in use. Formerly T-plan, gabled bays to east, gabled east bay to south elevation, return and flat-roofed extension to west. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, stone verge coping and raking cornices to pediments, lead valleys, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on smooth rendered eaves course. Painted roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, smooth rendered surrounds with cornices supported on pilasters to ground floor east elevation, painted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, tripartite to north and south bays ground floor east elevation and pedimented bay south elevation with six-over-six flanked by two-over-two panes, tripartite to west elevation with four-over-four flanked by two-over-two panes; timber casement windows to south. Square-headed door opening to east, smooth rendered surround flanked by short pilasters supporting frieze and cornice, painted timber four-panel door, timber diamond-pane overlight, limestone step. Set on elevated site with view of Carlingford Lough to east, now surrounded by building site.