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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with lean-to extension to the west elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west), and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings with plain raised rendered surrounds, stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening with plain raised rendered surrounds, replacement timber battened door and with plain overlight. Set well-back of road in own grounds on the south slope of Durnesh Hill. Long approach avenue across marshy ground from the south. Gateway at start of laneway comprising a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Located to the south-west of Ballintra, and close to the shores of Donegal Bay. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the south-west.

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