Magherycallaghan House

Detached three-bay two-storey-over basement country house with attic level, built c.1782, having central full-height shallow projecting stair return to the rear (south-west), and with various single-storey additions to the rear. Pitched natural slate roof with smooth rendered eaves course to the front elevation (north-east), projecting rendered eaves course to the rear elevation (south-west) and return, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with four smooth rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and two central chimneystacks) having terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered walls at basement level, and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings to front elevation having smooth rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; central Venetian window to front elevation at first floor level having smooth rendered surround with keystone detail, central round-headed window having timber sliding sash window with intersecting timber tracery to head, and with flanking square-headed window openings with four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to side and rear elevations with mainly timber sliding sash and with some replacement window openings. Replacement windows to basement and at attic level. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (north-east) having timber panelled door, doorcase comprising Doric pilasters (on square-plan) supporting pediment over, and with square-headed sidelights having smooth rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Cut granite threshold and flight of cut granite steps over basement to entrance. Single-storey addition to the rear at the south-east corner having mono-pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds and timber fittings, and square-headed doorway with smooth rendered pilasters supporting pediment over, and modern glazed timber door. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds to the south-east of Castlefinn, close to the border with County Tyrone to the east. Garden to the north-east having mature trees and a sunken lawn. Wrought-iron gates to site. Detached four-bay single-storey house to the south, possibly a former worker’s house, having pitched corrugated-metal roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with timber windows, and square-headed doorway with timber door. Main entrance gateway to the north east comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) with pineapple finials over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls (on quadrant\curved plan), and terminated to each side by smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate pier (on square-plan) with pineapple finial over.