house — Main Street

Detached four-bay two-storey house with converted attic level, built c. 1860 and extended c. 1880, having single storey extension to the east gable end. Possibly formerly in use as a hotel or public house. Pitched slate roof having four smooth rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and two to the centre), two modern rooflights to the north pitch of roof, projecting eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting plinth course, and with painted block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows (some paired), paired six-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to the east end of the front elevation (north) at ground floor level, and six-light fixed pane timber display window to the west end of the front elevation at ground floor level; some window openings at first floor level now blocked. Square-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, plain overlight, and with flight of concrete steps. Road-fronted to the centre of Rathmullan with rear elevation facing over Lough Swilly to the south. Gateway to the east gable end comprising a roughcast rendered gate pier (on square-plan) having smooth rendered plinth and step capping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Single-storey outbuilding attached to the west gable end having mono-pitched roofs, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Garden to the south backing onto coastline. Rubble stone boundary walls to the site boundaries to the rear. Two attached single-storey outbuildings to the south-west of site (not viewed clearly) having pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystack, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.