Ardnargle House, Seacoast Road, Ardnargle, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OLA

A large 2 storey 5 bay smooth rendered house with centrally placed projecting flat roofed stone faced porch reached by a long curving avenue from the Seacoast road. Each gable is the equivalent of 4 bays wide i.e. 2 rooms deep and that on the east has a stone faced central canted bay. The house has a long 2 storey back return which on the east looks out onto a broad balustraded terrace from which, at one time, a fine view was obtainable of the winding River Roe but now obscured by a mature plantation. The ground below the terrace falls away steeply down to the trees. From the back of the west gable of the main house runs a high wall with gateway screening the first farmyard and an impressive 2 storey range of outbuildings at right angles to and at the end of the back return. The main or south facade is not quite symmetrical as the porch is a little off-centre and hence the spacing of the windows to the east varies. The porch doorway has a pediment supporting modillions and a restrained cornice and frieze crowns the porch. Under the eaves one row of equally spaced moulded modillions removed in 1966 and recently replaced, carry a sandstone cornice, and these are returned on the gables. The windows of the ground and first floors have timber sashes and are divided into 12 panes as are most of the other windows of the house except those of the east bay which are divided in 4 and the large stairway window which is round headed. On the back return some windows are blank. All roofs are pitched and slated with lead hips and ridges. The main roof has an internal valley. Several tall chimney stacks with high pots punctuate the roofs. Outbuildings are of rubble stone construction with slated roofs and cast iron rainwater goods. The driveway sweeps into a generous gravelled forecourt in front of the entrance facade which gazes out on a broad expansive lawn. The estate provides a fine backcloth of mature and varied trees.