Slieveardagh House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with single-bay two-storey addition to rear, pitched roof front porch with scallop detail, now derelict, with lower two-storey house slightly recessed to south with hipped double-height return and lean-to single-storey addition, with outbuildings attached to south gable having integral carriage archway. Pitched artificial slate roof to northern house, slate to addition, with rendered rectangular and rendered octagonal chimneystacks respectively, unpainted rendered and rendered rubble limestone and brick walls respectively, and having square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to main block, round-headed to sides of porch and south gable of rear block, and half-glazed vertically-divided door with paned overlight to main block. Southern house is four-bay with pitched slate roof and moulded rendered chimneystack, having rendered walls and square-headed timber sliding sash three-over-six pane windows, round-headed to return. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to south have pitched and hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered and rubble stone walls, square-headed openings and elliptical-headed integral carriage arch with rubble sandstone voussoirs. Single- and two-storey stone outbuildings to rear.

Although derelict, this house retains its original character, massing and proportions. The simple forms are enhanced by the texture of the roof slates and timber sash windows. The nearby outbuildings provide contrast and combine to form an interesting group. Visible from the approach road to Commons village, it provides interest to the surrounding landscape.