Abbey House — Templeshannon

Attached two- or three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a square plan. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof including hipped roofs to window openings to dormer attic, clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of six cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters on padstones supporting cornice on blind frieze on fluted consoles, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped stepped capping supporting wrought iron double gates.