Ardvarness Cottage, Cashel Road, Macosquin, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4PW

A symmetrical three-bay one-and-a-half-storey detached Georgian villa with single-storey abutment; built c.1800 and located to the west side of Cashel Road south of Macosquin. Rectangular plan with projecting entrance bay to front and semi-circular bay with half-conical roof to north; single-storey abutment to east. Pitched natural slate roof with leaded ridges and centralised rendered chimneystacks having moulded sandstone caps; terracotta crestings and finial to single-storey abutment; modern metal rooflights to front. Aluminium rainwater goods on projecting eaves. Walling is painted smooth render (ruled-and-lined to west) with painted quoins. Windows are replacement timber sash with horns throughout; 6/6 to south, in moulded architraves having decorated keyblock, plinth blocks, and projecting painted stone sills; multi-paned tripartite timber windows to north. The principal elevation faces south and is symmetrically arranged about a central projection with doorcase; flanking bays each have a glazed spoked oculus over a 6/6 window. Georgian doorcase comprises fluted pilasters supporting a moulded and dentilled archivolt with decorated keyblock. Raised-and-fielded five-panel timber door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by a large timber bat wing fanlight; door accessed by a single sandstone step. The west gable has a replacement bipartite 3/3 window at first floor in a moulded architrave with projecting sill. The north elevation has semi-circular bay to centre containing a 6/6 tripartite bowed window having 2/2 sidelights; similar window to flanking bays. The east gable has a window as described at west. Abutted at ground floor left by the single-storey abutment. South elevation of abutment has two 3/3 replacement sash windows flanking a replacement timber-sheeted entrance door; north elevation has a tripartite timber window and a 2/4 window; abutted at east gable by a modern conservatory. Setting: Situated on a mature site to the west side of Cashel Road, separated from Macosquin village to north by the Macosquin by-pass. Replacement stone entrance walls and square piers with cattle grid to entrance at Cashel Road; tarmacadamed lane is shared with modern two-storey neighbouring dwelling; secondary entrance at west has replacement rubblestone square piers with stone caps surmounted by iron lamps. Gravelled to front of house with mature garden to south and large open field to road at north. Rubblestone wall with remnants of lime render runs from north to south between main house and single-storey abutment; rubblestone garden wall to west with original cast-iron latch gate at gable of house. Slated and rendered double garage to east of site. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Painted smooth render Windows: Replacement timber sash RWG: Aluminium