Mount Dalton House — LOUGHAN

Detached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, built 1784, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having capping supporting terracotta tapered or louvered yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods in lichen-spotted cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls (ground floor) with rusticated rendered piers to corners; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (first floor) with rendered strips to corners supporting cornice. Segmental-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of four cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone doorcase with engaged Doric columns on plinths supporting ogee-detailed open bed pediment on dosserets on entablature framing timber panelled double doors having overlight with fixed-pane sidelights. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with ogee-detailed hood mouldings on "guttae"-detailed fluted consoles framing margined four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with sill course, and concealed dressings framing margined four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.