Port Hall — PORTHALL

Complex of two two-storey warehouses to the rear of Port Hall (see 40907113), built c. 1746 and comprising of nine-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north and multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south with courtyard between. Block to south later in use as domestic accommodation. Complex now largely out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting eaves courses, terracotta ridge tiles to building to north, and with red brick chimneystacks. Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to block to north with some surviving stone sills, red brick surrounds, and with mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; timber louvered fittings to some openings and some openings and some openings now blocked. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to the north elevation of building to south at ground floor level having brick reveals, stone sills, and some timber casement windows. Series of semi-circular window openings to the north elevation of range to south having fixed-pane timber windows. Square-headed window openings to the south elevation of block to the south having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Semi-circular opening to the east end of the block to the north at attic level having brick surrounds with brick stringcourse under; formerly in use as a dovecote. Square- and segmental-headed door openings with mainly battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arches to block to north; flight of stone steps to the west gable end of block to the north giving access to doorway at first floor level. Located to the rear (east) of Port Hall and adjacent to the west bank of the River Foyle. Walled garden adjacent to the south of block to the south. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north of Lifford.