Clonacody House

Detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c. 1780, with recessed corners and having two-bay side elevations and five-bay rear elevation, one-bay deep two-storey addition to west, single-storey linking to further four-bay two-storey block. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to addition. Painted roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone string course acting as first floor front sill course, and plinth course. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows with limestone sill, six-over-six pane to ground floor, three-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-three pane to second floor and barred three-over-six pane to basement. Square-headed timber panelled double-leaf doors in carved limestone doorcase comprising entablature, pilasters with fluted capitals, and recessed sidelights having limestone sills, all recessed within round-headed recess, with limestone step. Carved round limestone plaque above entablature. Courtyard to west of house, entered through segmental-arched carriageway, with multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings and stableblocks, having pitched slate roofs with limestone bellcote to west end, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvers and timber battened half-doors and some segmental-arched carriage entrances. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge at entrance gates, with hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack, painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and square-headed replacement uPVC windows and timber panelled door. Round-headed niches to west elevation. Square-profile lined-and-ruled rendered piers with carved caps, spear-headed cast-iron gates and sweeping rendered walls terminated by round-profile rendered piers.