Swan Mount — Portnoo

Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c. 1850 and extended c. 1880, having single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the original building, built c. 1920, and with single-storey extensions to the rear (west) and attached to the south gable. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, stone ridge tiles, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two central smooth rendered chimneystacks to the original building having stepped cornice coping and clay ware pots over, and with smooth rendered chimneystacks to either end of two-bay two-storey addition to the south having stepped cornice coping and clay ware pots over. Pitched natural slate roof to entrance porch and mono-pitched natural slate roof to extensions. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over painted plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, and with two-over-two and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the south elevation of porch having timber panelled door. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north-west of Ardara, and located close to the shores of Gweebara Bay to the north. Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed openings with mainly timber sliding sash windows, and with square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary wall with large fieldstone coping over. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of gate piers (on square-plan) with chamfered coping over, and with a pair of cast-iron gates.