Drumbeg

House. Built in 1935 by H. Munro Cautley for his own residence. The house is constructed of rendered and whitewashed brick and timber frame, with plaintile roofs. The plan comprises an east-west range with gabled projections extending to the north and south from its eastern end. The architectural style is Elizabethan vernacular. All windows are casements with leaded glazing. The house has two storeys and an attic.

The south elevation features a gabled projection at the east end, incorporating a canted bay window on the ground floor with a pierced parapet above. The upper floor of this projection has a three-light casement flanked by smaller single-light windows. The gable-head is adorned with vertical timber studs and a pierced bargeboard. An external stepped stack is present on the east return. To the west, the building steps back to reveal a square projection under a hipped roof, entirely timber-framed and lit by a four-light casement on the ground floor and a three-light casement above. The main wall of the house then sweeps down over a recessed porch, which is lit by a three-light and a two-light casement, alongside a moulded door that leads to the staircase hall. A single three-light casement is positioned in the main wall to the west, beneath a four-light frieze of casements. A wide gabled roof is topped with a hipped dormer, also fitted with a three-light casement.

The west gable end has a two-story timber-framed canted bay, featuring vine-trail carvings on the principal studs and bressumers. A jettied attic bressumer is present, along with a two-light attic window in the gable-head. The north front has a timbered gabled projection, similarly lit by a three-light casement with upper side casements on each floor. A stepped stack is located behind this projection. An external stepped stack at the west end is linked to the projecting gable by a ground-floor lean-to. A passage link extends eastward from the main house to a garage and maisonette block. This block is characterized by a dominant gabled roof with a large gabled dormer containing a three-light casement. This design is repeated on the north front of the garage block, where timber garage doors are at ground floor level. The four-light dormer casement is embellished with strapwork pargetting over the window lintel.

Inside, the dining room (located in the south projection) has a plaster cornice with acanthus decoration, beneath a ceiling frieze of painted plasterwork depicting naturalistic fruit and flowers. A panelled door, boarded on the outside, leads to a plain timber fireplace surround. The staircase features a closed string decorated with billet mouldings, stylized interlaced leaf-trails, a raking dado panelled with linenfold, thick moulded splat balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels with bobbin finials. The sitting room at the west end is accessed via an eight-panelled door, boarded on the outside, leading to an anteroom with small-framed panelling and a geometric plaster ceiling. The main sitting room features roll-moulded bridging beams and wall-plates decorated with billet and punched motifs. A four-centred stone fireplace has leaf-trails and dragons carved into the spandrels and a crenellated mantel, with a recessed and panelled timber overmantel.