Ballindrait Presbyterian Manse

Detached three-bay two-storey Presbyterian manse, built c. 1830 and altered or rebuilt c. 1880, having single-bay single-storey porch to the centre of the front elevation (north), added c. 1880, and with single-storey extension to the rear (south). Now in use as a house or manse. Pitched natural slate roof with stone ridge tiles, overhanging bracketed eaves with exposed rafter ends, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards to the gable ends, and with four red brick chimneystacks having cornice copings and clay-ware pots over. Flat felt roof to entrance porch with smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners of main body of building. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, moulded smooth rendered architraved surrounds, and with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to sides of porch having smooth rendered surrounds and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening to front face of porch (north) having timber panelled door, sidelights and plain overlight, and with smooth rendered surround comprising fluted pilasters with capitals, and architraved head with keystone motif. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-east of Ballindrait and to the north-west of Lifford. Mature garden to front of site (north). Associated Presbyterian church (see 40834013) located at Ballindrait. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding with two-bay two-storey attached extension located to east having pitched purple slate roof, smooth rendered eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Outbuilding now converted for use as a doctor’s surgery (since 1997). Rubble stone walls with segmental-headed and square-headed openings with red brick headers and reveals with concrete sills, and having replacement windows and doors throughout. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to north. Gateway to the north-west corner of site comprising a pair of red brick gate piers (on square-plan) having roughcast rendered central panels and with stepped red brick coping, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates.