house — BLACKROCK

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having single-storey projecting entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (south-east), added c. 1920, and with modern two-storey flat roof extension to the rear (north-west). Pitched natural slate roof having blue clay ridge tiles, and with rendered verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Pitched natural slate roof to porch having clay ridge tiles and with decorative bargeboard to the front. Roughcast rendered walls over painted plinth course, and having raised parallel quoins to the corners of the front elevation and to corners of porch. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, rand having tripartite timber sliding sash windows to ground floor with replacement windows over to first floor. Some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows surviving to secondary elevations. Square-headed doorway to the north-west face of porch with timber door. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford. Complex of two single-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the east of site having hipped corrugated-metal and pitched natural slate slated roofs, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed doorways openings having red brick reveals and battened timber doors and double-doors. Gravel driveway to south and east and rendered rubble stone boundary wall to road to south-east. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates with twisted decoration. Garden to south and rubble stone wall flanking driveway.