Garracloon Lodge — Cross

Detached six-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built 1728, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch on a bowed plan; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1974. Undergoing repair, 2009. Now disused. Part chicken wire-covered pitched oat or straw thatch roof on timber batons on timber construction with half-conical oat or straw thatch roof (porch), grouped exposed stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed scallops, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered chimney stack having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops; hipped gabled slate roof (north) with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast battered walls; rendered surface finish (north). Segmental-headed door opening with cut-limestone threshold, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone Gibbsian surround centred on stop fluted double keystone framing replacement timber panelled door with fanlight now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three (west) or two-over-two (east) timber sash windows. Interior including bow-ended hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds including "haha".