house — DRUMHOME

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, having two-storey return to the rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks with corbel course to head. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with plain raised surrounds, painted sills, and with tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with narrow timber sliding sidelights to the outer bays (west and east) at ground floor level, central tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window at first floor level with narrow timber sliding sidelights, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to outer bays (east and west) at first floor level. Replacement window fittings to rear elevation (south) and side elevations. Central square-headed door opening having plain smooth rendered surround, battened timber door, and with overlight and sidelights. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Ballintra, and a short distance to the east of the shores of Donegal Bay. Gravel forecourt and garden to the north. Aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with roughly squared flush quoins to the corners, and with square-headed doorways and loading bays having remains of timber battened doors. Modern garage to the west.