Ardmore Lodge (House), 119 Drumsurn Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OPD

A long rambling two storey 11 bay long house with chamfered and canted projections to front and rear with kitchen back return. Natural slated pitched roofs. Front canted two storey projecting bay has polygonal hips and the other two storey projecting bay a flat roof incongruously thrusting through the front pitch and finishing almost level with the ridge. The walls are smooth rendered with a frieze under the roof soffits and decorated wooden modillions made of three pieces of timber clamped together. There are shallow sunken rectangular panels between the ground and first floor windows of the flat roofed projecting bay decorated with meagre swags. Windows have sliding timber sashes varying between 12 and 15 panes, while those in the canted bay have two large panes each. There are several entrance doors to the principal front because the house is divided. The front elevation faces north west. The house is sited a short distance below the Drumsurn Road close to the valley bottom of the Castle River and strung out with the slope of the ground. Presently the residence is having a major renovation so the grounds are unkempt and the house chaotic. The owner resides mostly in America and was the author of Macrory report on local Government Re-organisation in N Ireland in the early 1970s. Adjacent to the house are two mills - see separate descriptions. (HB02/08/015 & HB02/08/016).