Stranakivilin House — Glenties

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having central projecting single-bay single-storey entrance porch to front elevation (south-west), and with single-storey return to rear (north-east). Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves having exposed rafters with decorative ends, replacement rainwater goods, and with three smooth rendered chimneystacks with cornice copings and clay ware pots over. Flat roof to porch with rendered or stone coping over. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with projecting smooth rendered plinth course to the west side, and with flush dressed ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners of main body of building, and to porch. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Paired round-headed window openings to centre of the north-east elevation at first floor level having stone sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing bars having coloured glass to margins. Square-headed door opening to the north-east side of porch having timber panelled door with plain overlight. Set back from road in mature grounds in the countryside to the north of the centre of Glenties. Mature trees to site. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around two courtyards to the rear (north-east) having pitched slate roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Gateway to the west of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates; gateway flanked to either side by quadrant sections of smooth rendered boundary wall having chamfered coping over, and terminated by smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over. Pedestrian gateway to the south-west having a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gate.