The Rectory — MORTLESTOWN (COOLEAGH PR)

Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey over half-basement former rectory with attic, built 1773, now in use as private house, with central projecting porch to front and single-bay three-storey return to rear with recent single-bay two-storey extension with water tank to west and recent single-bay two-storey lean-to to east. Pitched slate roof with eaves course, stepped to east end of façade, with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, painted to front. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills, six-over-six pane to ground and first floors, four-over-four pane to attic and top floor of return. Round-headed six-over-six pane window to first floor of return and fixed nine-pane windows to front of basement. Round-headed decorative cast-iron windows to side walls of porch. Gable-fronted porch having Doric style pilasters flanking a segmental-headed recessed niche surrounding with inset segmental-headed opening having timber panelled and glazed double-doors with petal fanlight, accessed by flight of cut limestone steps. Multiple-bay two-storey stables to rear having hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered rubble limestone masonry walls and square-headed openings with timber louvered windows to first floor with limestone sills and brick voussoirs to timber battened half-doors in ground floor. Snecked limestone and sandstone masonry piers with carved limestone caps having rubble sandstone and limestone masonry walls terminating in second pair of piers.