Glendaragh Nursing Home

Glendaragh Nursing Home, formerly known as the Glendaragh Hotel, is a large house that dates back to the mid-19th century. It features painted stucco with painted rusticated stone quoins and dressings, and has a shallow-pitched slate roof with deep bracketed eaves at the front and sides. The building has very large painted rendered stacks at the pediments and on the front slope. It has a square plan with a 20th-century rear block.

The exterior consists of two storeys and a symmetrical arrangement of seven windows, with a 2:3:2 fenestration pattern and outer pedimented ranges. The windows are 6/6-pane sash windows with moulded architraves. An enclosed Tuscan porch features semicircular arches with keystones in the recesses on the returns and front, topped by a large fanlight, likely from the 20th century, above double doors. The two outer bays of the building are stepped forward under pediments, with the right bay having blind windows.

The front and garden facade, which is the right return, is adorned with a cornice over a deep lintel string course, a moulded sill course, and a plinth. The first-floor windows have panelled aprons flanked by pilasters, aligning with the sill course and cornice of the ground floor, which matches that of the porch. The left bay includes a late 19th-century single-storey rectangular bay with paired 6/1-pane sash windows, a cornice, and a blocking course. The three central first-floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes with low late 19th-century cast-iron Gothic balustrades; a similar window is located inside on the left, while the far left window has closed louvred shutters.

The three-bay right return garden front features a cast-iron arcaded verandah with a glazed roof. The stacks at the pediments have heavy moulded cornices at their bases, paired shafts with heavy modillion-type cornices, and square cream chimney pots, while other stacks have been repaired without mouldings. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to retain some ornamental plasterwork.