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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1852, having central decorative open cast-iron porch to front elevation (east) added c. 1880, and with single-bay two-storey wing to the rear at the south end having single-storey entrance porch to south. Single-storey with attic level and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear (west). Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves having paired corbelled brackets, smooth rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks having smooth rendered coping and clay pots over. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and having smooth rendered block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills, and having six-over-six timber sliding sash windows; vermiculated keystones over ground floor window openings and curvilinear smooth rendered apron panels to base of ground floor window openings. Central segmental-headed door opening having timber panelled double-doors flanked by sidelights over timber panels with bolection mouldings, spoked fanlight over, and with cut stone steps; doorway flanked by smooth rendered panels having inset circular and shouldered rectangular motifs. Decorative open cast-iron porch to front having cast-iron Composite columns (on circular-plan), decorative cast-iron spandrels, decorative ridge cresting with alternating shamrock and fleur-de-lys motifs, and with wrought-iron floral finials to corners. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south of Raphoe. Garden to front and two-storey outbuilding to the rear (west) having hipped natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Additional two-storey outbuilding to the north, c. 1860, now ruinous, having formerly hipped and pitched roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings, red brick voussoirs over ground floor openings and shallow segmental-headed carriage-arch with red brick voussoirs. Rubble stone boundary walls surrounding house with soldier coursing over. Gateway to the east of house comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts (on octagonal-plan) with urn finials over, and with a pair of decorative cast-iron gates with fleur-de-lys finials over.