Oldtown House

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built or rebuilt c. 1845, having multiple-bay two-and-three-storey extension to rear (northwest) and two-storey extension to northeast elevation (at the rear). Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and a central pair of ashlar chimneystacks having moulded cornices and terracotta chimney pots. Coursed roughly dressed limestone masonry walls with roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Building originally rendered. Chamfered sandstone string course to basement level. Square-headed window openings having tripartite/Wyatt-type timber sliding sash windows, comprising six-over-six pane central window with flanking two-over-two pane, having limestone sills and cut limestone voussoirs with block-and-start surrounds. Central elliptical-headed doorway to main elevation (southeast), set in flush ashlar limestone surround/panel, comprising square-headed glazed timber door with flanking timber pilasters having moulded consoles, moulded timber cornice, sidelights and with wide elliptical-headed fanlight. Doorway reached by flight of cut stone steps over basement level flanked to either side (east and west) by rendered walls and limestone coping to entrance. Set back from road in extensive grounds in the rural countryside to the north of Ardagh. Complex of two-storey outbuildings (13401450) to the rear (northwest), main entrance gates to the south.