Liss Ard — RUSSAGH

Detached seven-bay two-storey former country house over basement with central canted bay, built c.1840. Reoriented and side extension including porch (north-east) added. Now in use as hotel. Recent flat roof extension to side (south-west). Hipped slate roofs having two-stage rendered chimneystacks with timber and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with moulded sill course, platband and rusticated quoins. Square-headed openings to ground floor with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and moulded rendered surrounds. Camber-headed openings to first floor with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, concrete sills and moulded rendered surrounds. Round-headed opening to rear with two-over-two and flanking one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with spoked fanlight. Oculus opening to rear with fixed pane window. Square-headed door opening having timber glazed doors, overlight, rendered surrounds and stone step. Rendered balustrades with piers and flights of stairs to rear. Later extension comprising hipped slate roof with decorative chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and recent rooflights, painted rendered walls having projecting central bay (north-east) with platband, sill course and rusticated quoins, square-headed opening with two-over-two timber sliding sash window, moulded rendered surround and pediment and square-headed opening with timber casement windows and concrete sills. Pitched slate roof to later porch, comprising round-headed opening with rusticated voussoirs, string course and stone steps, round-headed opening with tripartite fixed pane windows and moulded sills, and corner pilasters with entablature supporting an open-bed pediment. Hexagonal-plan outbuilding to rear and outbuildings to side (south-west). Rubble limestone garden walls to side (south-west) and extensive gardens to front. Painted rendered walls with gate piers.