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

Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1840, having single-bay enclosed entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (west), and with two-bay two-storey return and single-storey extension to the rear (east). Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched artificial slate roofs with projecting eaves to front elevation, and with two stepped rendered chimneystacks to the rear wall (east) of main body of building (aligned along with back wall). Pitched roof to return, shallow hipped roof to porch and mono-pitched roof to extension. Timber drop finials to gable apexes and at eaves level to side elevations (north and south). Ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls to main elevation; roughcast rendered to side elevations. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-three pane timber sash windows at first floor level. Round-headed doorway to the front face of porch having battened timber door with plain overlight, and having ashlar plinth blocks to base and flagstone to threshold. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north of Laghy. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings, and segmental-headed carriage-arch with roughly dressed voussoirs to arch and having timber double doors. Main entrance to the east of house comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping and modern gates. Gateway flanked to either side by quadrant sections of roughcast rendered boundary walls and terminated in roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones.