Lotamore — Lower Glanmire Road

Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1780, having slightly recessed two-bay wings extended c.1880. In use for a time as guest house. Hipped slate roof with projecting timber sheeted eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods with hoppers and square profile down pipes having decorative details and brackets. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with raised render plinth. Square-headed window openings having moulded surrounds, moulded cornice and fascia above first floor windows, limestone sills and one-over-one timber sash windows. Granite sills to later wings. Windows to basement are blocked up. Square-headed door opening flanked by engaged Ionic columns supporting moulded render fluted cornice above fluted fascia and archivolt to plain fanlight. Timber-and-glazed panelled door and fixed-light sidelights. Reconstituted stone perron to entrance having decorative cast-iron handrails and railings to landing. Blocked square-headed doorway to west elevation having moulded render surround with cornice above and retaining cast-iron handrail to limestone steps. L-plan two-storey outbuilding to north-west yard having hipped artificial slate roof and replacement timber sash windows, now in domestic use. Cast-iron fountain accessed by way of limestone steps immediately south of the house. Remnants of garden walls and extensive glasshouses visible to east of house.