Marble Hill — Portnablagh

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house (on L-shaped plan), built c. 1810 or 1836, having two-storey return to the rear (west) at the south-west corner, single-storey extension to the rear at the north-west corner, added c. 1895, and with central projecting pedimented single-bay single-storey cut stone Ionic entrance porch to the front elevation. Possibly later in use as a Church of Ireland rectory c. 1880-1894. Now in use as a house and rental holiday home. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves supported on paired console brackets, smooth rendered or painted ashlar eaves course with stringcourse to base, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods with gargoyle or grotesque motifs to gutters, and with a central pair of stepped smooth rendered chimneystacks with ashlar stringcourses, ashlar coping, and terracotta pots. Hipped natural slate roof to single-storey extension (kitchen extension?) having central perforated cement rendered chimneystack with hipped slate roofed coping over. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting canted ashlar plinth course, and with raised ashlar parallel\block quoins to corners. Channelled ashlar walls to side elevations of porch. Roughcast rendered walls to single-storey extension to rear. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, cut stone sills, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Window openings to front elevation at ground floor level set in round-headed recesses; tripartite\Wyatt window over porch to central bay at first floor level having stone sill, and timber sliding sash windows. Recessed square-headed doorway to porch having paired timber glazed doors, and with cut stone architraved surround and flanking sections of ashlar walling; pedimented distyle entrance porch having two Ionic columns, ashlar pilasters to either side having recessed rectangular panels and with laurel wreath garlands over, and surmounted by ashlar pediment. Flight of cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds overlooking Marble Hill Strand and Sheephaven Bay to the east. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Dunfanaghy. Complex of two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard to the south. Gate lodge (see 40901617) and gateway (see 40901618) to the south east. Gateway to the rear of site comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping and wrought-iron lanterns over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked by sections of roughcast rendered boundary wall having integral pedestrian entrance to one side with wrought-iron gate. Garden to front of house having terraces and cut stone steps. Remains of walled garden (on sub rectangular-plan) to the north (not investigated).