Carrowmena House, 75 Carrowclare Road, Carrowmenagh, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9EB

This is a mid-19th century, specifically around 1851, Victorian house built in a Georgian style. The house has pleasing proportions and a simple plan, though it has undergone some alterations. It enjoys a secluded setting on a pleasantly sited plot, relating well to its outbuildings and featuring a neat garden. The architectural character has unfortunately been diminished by inappropriate modernizations.

The house is a two-story, five-bay wide structure with two-story returns to the rear, and includes attics. The symmetrical facade features a centrally placed entrance porch. The exterior is rendered with plastered quoins and window architraves. The windows are sliding sash windows, each sash divided into six panes. Unusually, the sashes lack horns and instead finish square, reflecting a Georgian detail. A shallow, projecting porch with a flattened slate roof, decorated on three sides with white painted carving, now obscures the original fanlight above the entrance door, which has been retained as an inner door to the hallway. This inner door is flanked by engaged, slender, circular timber Tuscan columns. Like many houses in the Myroe area, this building replaced a former one-story cottage. The house is set back from the roadside with a gravelled forecourt. To the south, it's bounded by a garden lawn, and to the other side by the gable of the farm buildings, the long wall of which runs along the roadside. A doorway through a connecting wall leads to a large farmyard enclosed on three sides by outbuildings. The garden lawn is bounded by a stone wall approximately 1.5 meters high and mature trees. A section of the farm buildings is constructed from handmade brick in a distinctive pattern of four courses of stretchers and one course of headers, typical of Myroe brickwork. Fireplaces are placed in the gable ends and finished with smooth rendering. The roof is slated with Bangor blue slates. The cast iron guttering is half-round and returns to position downpipes on the gables. The architectural appearance of the back return is considered untidy due to a recent conversion, although it fits neatly into the angle of the main house and doesn’t impact the front facade.

A datestone high up on the south gable is inscribed "J M Martin, 1851”, indicating the year of construction. In 1858, a Griffith's Valuation listed John Martin as the occupier and Henry Tyler, Sir Samuel Martin, and James Ogilby as the lessors.