Tullydonnell House — TULLYDONNELL LOWER

Detached five-bay two-storey house on ‘T-shaped’ plan, built c. 1770, having modern two-storey extension to the rear (north-west). Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods ,and having smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north-east and south-west) with stringcourses. Smooth rendered walls with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window opening with stone sills, and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central modified depressed three-centred arched door opening to south-east with articulated raised surround with keystone, modern timber panelled entrance door, flanking fluted pilasters with console brackets over, sidelights, and plain fanlight over. Set back from road in elevated site in the rural countryside to the north-east of Convoy. House approached by laneway from the south-east lined with hedgerows. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the north-east and east, built c. 1800 and c. 1860. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to the east, built c. 1800, having pitched and hipped natural slate roof with metal rooflights, metal roof vent, and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways and carriage-arches with battened timber doors and timber lintels. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north-east, built c. 1860, having pitched natural slate roof with metal roof vents, projecting eaves course, and some surviving cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with replacement windows and red brick reveals, and square-headed doorways with red brick block-and-start reveals and some surviving battened timber doors.