View Mount — DUNINGA, PAULSTOWN

Detached three-bay two-storey Classical-style country house, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, on site with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced end bay to right, three-bay two-storey side elevations, three-bay two-storey lower parallel range along rear (east) elevation terminating in single-bay two-storey higher end bay having two-storey canted bay window, and three-bay single-storey service range with half-dormer attic to south-east. Now disused. Hipped slate roofs (half-octagonal to canted bay window; gabled to half-dormer attic windows to service range) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging cut-limestone eaves. Roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-limestone stringcourse to first floor, cut-limestone band to eaves, limestone ashlar walls to porch having chamfered pilasters with moulded necking, moulded cornice on stringcourse, panelled parapet rising into gable to centre, and cut-limestone coping. Square-headed window openings (some paired; in camber-headed recesses to ground floor) with cut-limestone sills (forming sill course to first floor having panelled risers), chamfered reveals to ground floor, and one-over-one timber sash windows (square-headed window openings to service range with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows). Square-headed openings to porch with two cut-limestone steps, timber panelled double doors having overlight, and one-over-one timber sash sidelights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Attached six-bay two-storey outbuilding wing, c.1850, to south on an L-shaped plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, on site with elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor, and four-bay single-storey projecting range to left. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (hipped gabled to projecting range) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having rendered stringcourses, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, concealed yellow brick surrounds, and remains of two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with yellow brick block-and-start surround (originally concealed), and remains of timber door. Elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor with no fittings.