rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house — Ardara

Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built 1875, having advanced two-storey gable-fronted bay to the south end of the front elevation (east) having canted bay window at ground floor level, central advanced two-storey gable-fronted bay to the front elevation, and with two-storey return to the rear (west) at the north end. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural purple slate roofs with exposed rafter ends, clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and four two-stage steeped ashlar tooled chimneystacks with chamfered copings over. Single half-dormer window openings to the south and north side elevations having pitched natural slate roofs, and hipped natural slate roof to canted bay. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth plinth course, and with continuous sill course to canted bay. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having smooth render surrounds to upper halves, stucco hoodmouldings over, smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, single surviving one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window, and with mainly replacement windows. Central segmental-headed door opening to the front elevation (east) having smooth rendered reveal, smooth render surround to upper half, stucco hoodmouldings over, replacement timber double-doors, and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of the centre of Ardara. Outbuildings to rear. Gateway to the south-east with roughcast rendered piers (on square-plan) with smooth rendered pointed-arched motif to front faces (east), moulded render coping and ball finials over, metal gates, and with flanking sections of roughcast rendered boundary walling terminated in roughcast rendered piers (on square-plan).