Ardamine Rectory — DOUGHAL

Detached three-bay two-storey Church of Ireland rectory, extant 1885, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Occupied, 1911. Extended, 1920, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, rendered chamfered chimney stacks on rendered chamfered bases having stringcourses below stepped capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening into rectory with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having oversailing overlight. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with terracotta hood mouldings over framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.