Menloe House — Blackrock Road

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, with full-height bow to south and single-storey screen walls to garden adjoining north elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to house and screen walls with smooth render plinth and fascia. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and six-over-six and three-over-three timber sliding sash windows. Tuscan tetrastyle portico to north with triglyphs and garlands to frieze, cornice with mutules surmounted by leaded parapet. Square-headed door opening set in round-headed recess with moulded render surround and having fanlight. Ionic columns flank door supporting cornice above round-headed sidelights with Ionic half-pilasters to sides. Timber panelled door with glazed upper panels and encaustic tiled floor to portico plinth. Round-headed opening set in screen wall with moulded render surround having keystone and timber gate. Two-bay two-storey gate lodge with single-bay extension to northwest having hipped roof. Entrance comprising roughcast boundary sweep walls with square-profile limestone ashlar piers and cast-iron gate with decorative floral motifs.