Strangemore House, 2 Lower Main Street, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4PG

A 2 storey roughcast rendered house with gables and hips and slated roof. The entrance façade, which faces north, is 5 bays long, the 2 bays to the east project forward one bay. The entrance is in a 2 storey canted bay with rusticated stone surround and thin cornice with shallow block piece on top. The door opening is arched with plain fanlight. On either side of the canted bay single 4 pane sliding sash windows with low cills. The projecting 2 bays or front return has 2 no. 4 pane sliding sash windows widely spaced. The flanking wall has 1 similar window. All have low cills. At first floor level there is a window over each ground floor opening except that the windows are of slightly lesser height and the cill levels of the 1st 3 bays are much lower than the others indicating a change of level in floors. Likewise the roofline of the 1st 3 bays is lower. The frieze band fills the space between window head and gutters. Walls have a roughcast render and window reveals a smooth render showing as a thin line on the edge. There is a gabled roof over the 1st 3 bays with Bangor blue slates and gabled chimney stack. Over the canted bay there is a faceted hip roof with lead hips. Over the front return the roof is hipped with tiled ridges. The east elevation is 2 bays wide with a single ground floor window of similar type as entrance front. There are 2 chimneys, one to each bay. Each shouldered stack has a deep frieze and cornice and divided into 2 panels on the wide faces. At first floor there are 4no. 4 pane sliding sash windows evenly spaced and over the frieze band. There is a PVC gutter and single downpipe. Wall and reveal finishes as before. The S elevation is 5 bays long with the 2 bays to the east projecting slightly with 2 windows as before on ground and 2 directly over. Wall finishes similar with frieze continued. A 2 storey small gabled back return occurs in the middle of the other 3 bays. Roofline lower. Windows are symmetrically arranged on either side at ground and first floor. There is a further single storey return to the back return with a hipped lean to roof. Wall finishes are similar and ground floor windows are 12 pane sliding sash. The West gable has a narrow window and a door at ground floor and a central chimney stack on the gable. The house is prominently sited on the north side of Lower Main Street in its own grounds. There is a gateway entrance from Main Street and another avenue entrance from Pellipar avenue. North of the house is a small stream draining towards the River Roe and may have been a feature of the garden in the past. To the West of the house and a little distance from it is a 2 storey coachhouse presently being restored. Gabled with chimney stacks on each gable and with Georgian glazed window. Coach doors have segmental arches. There were good cast iron gates to Main Street with decorative finials made by Brown of Derry. They have recently been shot blasted. Boundary wall rendered in roughcast with concrete coping.