Cloyne House

Detached irregular plan former bishop's palace and country house, built 1718, incorporating fabric of earlier building, now in use as house. Comprising double-height single-storey entrance hall to west, with slightly higher two-storey block to rear running east-west, having four-bay south elevation, and six-bay north elevation with three bays formed by return to the west end. Flanking single-storey lean-to extensions to three-bay return, north elevation. Hipped slate and artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta chimneypots, limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with limestone date plaque. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with carved timber doorcase and carved limestone plinth stones, having half-glazed timber panelled door with stained glass overlight bearing date. Retains interior features. Garden to rear with cast- and wrought-iron pedestrian gate and limestone flagstones. Farmyard to rear comprising single- and two-storey outbuildings, with pitched and hipped corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to the south elevation of the north outbuilding. Segmental-headed carriage arch to wall to west, with wrought-iron double-leaf gates. Rubble stone boundary wall to south. Octagonal-plan gate lodge with pyramidal artificial slate roof and rendered central chimneystack, smooth rendered walls, pointed arch openings with replacement windows and doors and limestone sills to openings. Painted rendered boundary walls and square-profile piers with limestone capstones to site entrance, with wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates.