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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house\country house with attic level, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1860. Possibly containing the fabric of an earlier structure to site. Single-storey over basement flat-roofed return to rear (north), c. 1975, having single-bay single-storey porch with lean-to roof attached to the south end of the west elevation. Pitched natural slate roof having brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west), clayware ridge tiles and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front (south) elevation having block-and-start quoins to the corners; smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to side elevations and to rear. Square-headed window openings to front elevations at ground floor and first floor levels having smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills, and with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to front elevation to basement level having rendered surrounds and three-over-three-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to other elevations with replacement timber sliding sash and replacement timber windows. Central round-headed doorway to the front elevation (south) having timber panelled door flanked to either side by leaded coloured glass sidelights over timber stallrisers, flanking fluted timber pilasters, moulded timber lintel, spider’s web fanlight over, and with plain rendered surround. Doorway reached by two curving flights of cut stone steps having replacement metal railings. Cantilevered timber staircase with undulating plaster soffit to interior. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in elevated hillside site to the north-east of the centre of Letterkenny. Courtyard of single-and two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard to the rear (north) Semi-detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north side of complex of outbuildings having hipped (west) and pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, semi-circular\lunette (first floor) and square-headed window openings (ground floor) with remains of timber fittings, square-headed door opening with battened timber door, and with two square-headed carriage-arches with battened timber double doors. Semi-detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north-east side of outbuilding complex formerly with pitched natural slate roof (now collapsed\removed), roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings at ground floor level, and loop hole\slit windows at first floor level. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding and possible former workers house to the north-west side of complex of outbuildings having pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, and with square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and doors. Main gateway to the south-east of site comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of cast-iron gates; gateway flanked to side by sections of curved quadrant rendered walling. Secondary gateway to the east with stone piers and flanking sections of curved quadrant walling. Walled garden to the south-west, now out of use and partially truncated to the south by modern road, having some remaining mature fruit trees.
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