Summerhill House — Mullaghnacross

Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house with dormer attic, extant 1777, on a shallow cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1929. Derelict, 1976. Now in ruins. Pitched roof on a cruciform plan now missing with fine roughcast chimney stacks having shallow stringcourses below cut-limestone capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on tooled cut-limestone "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice centred on "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" open bed pediment (breakfront). Fine roughcast walls on chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base with concealed tooled hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of overgrown steps with dragged cut-limestone lugged surround supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on pulvinated frieze. Square-headed flanking window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and dragged cut-limestone surrounds with four-over-four timber sash windows now missing. "Venetian Window" (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and dragged cut-limestone surround centred on keystone with six-over-six timber sash window now missing. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone lintels with six-over-six timber sash windows now missing. Square-headed window openings (gables) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing some four-over-two timber sash windows. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central hall retaining remains of carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters with remains of carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled reveals, and run moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and remains of timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled reveals with remains of timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having beaded stringcourses below drag edged dragged cut-limestone capping.