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Porthall House

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Porthall House
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Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), central two-storey return to the rear (west) and with two-storey return to the rear at the north-west corner. Possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier house to site. Hipped natural slate roof behind raised smooth rendered parapet with cornice at eaves level, central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows. Set back from road in own grounds overlooking the River Foyle to the east. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Saint Johnstown and to the north of Lifford. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) having pitched natural slate roofs, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Formal lawned area to the east of house. Modern cattle sheds to the west. Rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the north. Gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of rubble stone (on circular-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates.

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