Moytura House — GORTACURRA

Detached three-bay single-storey holiday house or summer house with half-dormer attic, built 1864-5; dated 1865, on a U-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch abutting single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bay; pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height returns (north). Sold, 1949. Pitched slate roof on a U-shaped plan including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), trefoil-perforated clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having shallow capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, dragged cut-limestone coping to gable (porch) with trefoil finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Tudor-headed window opening (porch) below rope twist-detailed cut-limestone date stone ("1865") with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window. Square-headed flanking window opening (west) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window. Square-headed flanking window opening in bipartite arrangement (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, timber mullion, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter supporting looped wrought iron "farm gate".