Ardvarna — Falls Road

Detached three-bay two-storey house, designed 1894; built 1894-6; dated 1896, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced (east) or projecting (west) end bays centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch; four-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Sold, 1906. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1937. Resold, 1974. Pitched and hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on felt-covered flat roof; lean-to slate roof (porch), terracotta ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having cut-granite beaded capping supporting terracotta tapered or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (south) elevation on timber eaves boards on overhanging eaves on strutted timber posts. Rendered walls (ground floor); bellcast slate hung surface finish (first floor). Square-headed central door opening in round-headed recess with step threshold, and rock faced granite ashlar voussoirs framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows having square leaded glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds with rock faced granite ashlar tapered piers to perimeter having margined rock faced cut-granite stringcourses below inscribed cut-granite curvilinear gabled capping.