Ballyduff House — Main Street

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780 and possibly containing earlier fabric, having projecting gable-fronted single-bay single-storey entrance porch offset to the north side of the centre of the entrance front (east), added c. 1870, two-storey return to rear (west), two-bay single-storey extension to the north, and with single-storey outbuilding attached to the south. Pitched natural purple slate roof with three smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystacks (one to centre and one to either gable end) with cornice coping, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped and pitched roof to north extension. Rusticated smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with roughcast rendered walls to extension to north and to return to rear. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and with architraved surrounds to ground floor openings. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, spoked overlight, and with doorcase comprising Doric columns supporting entablature over with dentilated cornice and with floral motifs to frieze. Set back from road in mature grounds to the west of the centre of Lifford. Aligned at a right-angle to road-alignment. Range of single-storey outhouses adjoining to south having pitched corrugated-metal and natural slate roofs, smooth rendered and brick walls and square-headed openings. Rubble stone boundary walls to the north boundary to rear (west), roughcast rendered walls to the north boundary to front (east). Gateway to the south-east.