Dunruadh, 68 Culmore Road, Londonderry, BT48 8JB

Large 2 storied house with attic in the Arts and Crafts Style. Stretcher bond smooth red bricks (lagan vale) to ground floor. White wet dash render and red terracotta tiles to first floor. Westmoorland green slates with projecting white timber dormer windows and barges. The main entrance elevation facing due east towards the River Foyle is dominated by a two storey entrance porch projecting approximately 2m from the façade. This is terminated as a gable at first floor and is finished in the white render. The panelled and varnished timber entrance doors are flanked by two varnished timber Doric columns at the head of a flight of 4 stone steps. To the north, the line of the porch roof is continued into the attic and also rendered before dropping steeply to a modern extension. To the south of the porch a large chimney stack projects from the façade in brick, it is rendered in a similar colour to the brick for the storey height it projects above the eaves line (modern repair?). This portion of the façade is tile hung at first floor and terminated at eaves level with a dormer above. Further to the north the ground floor extends out to become a conservatory with a hipped red tile roof. The north elevation has tiles above first floor and is a gable. The attic has a venetian window, two three pane casements are on the first floor. At ground floor the conservatory projects approximately 4m and is almost half the width of the façade. A bay window is situated to the rear corner at 45 degrees to the façade is similarly detailed to the conservatory. The rear or west elevation is tile hung at first floor. A gabled bay projects approximately 1m from the façade at the north end. There is a flat roofed rectangular bay at ground level one four pane casement above and a two pane casement in the attic. A three pane dormer projects to the south with two pane casements aligning below. To the north of the projection is a single storey modern kitchen extension in similar materials but different roof pitch projecting 6m approx into the garden. The north elevation of the original building consists of a long roof in Westmoorland slate dropping almost to first floor level with two projecting dormers. At present a modern single storey extension partly obscures this façade. The extension joins onto a two storey existing shed with boiler chimney (in brick as the original building), and has similar slate on a low pitch. The extension is smooth rendered and painted white. The building sits on a large hillside overlooking the Foyle Bridge screened from Culmore Road by high planting.