Gortmore — Summerville Avenue

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1890, on a complex plan retaining original aspect with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced entrance bay having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch, single-bay two-storey recessed end bay to right with single-bay two-storey box bay window at angle on corner, two-bay two-storey side elevation to east with single-bay single-storey box bay window to ground floor, and pair of two-bay two-storey returns to south having single-bay single-storey infill conservatory to south-east with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch and single-bay single-storey canted elevation to south, and two-bay two-storey lean-to lower bay to south-west. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to lower end bay) with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Flemish bond chimney stacks, timber bargeboards with decorative timber detailing to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves having ribbed motifs. Pitched glazed roof to conservatory (gabled to porch; half-polygonal to canted elevation) in timber frame with finials to apexes. Unpainted roughcast walls with painted rendered dressings including strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite and tripartite arrangements) with stone sills, and rendered surrounds with some having elliptical relieving arches over. 4/1 and 6/1 timber sash windows with one tripartite opening having round-headed light to centre with fixed-pane timber window, and fixed-pane sidelights having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening in limestone ashlar porch approached by twelve cut-stone steps with banded pilasters supporting frieze having moulded cornice, and balustraded parapet over forming balcony. Timber panelled door with sidelights, and overlight. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to balcony with rendered surround having hood moulding over, and triangular pediment on stringcourse. Square-headed openings to conservatory with stone sills, fixed-pane timber windows, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.