Carrickmore House

Detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey over basement rendered former house, built c.1879. Square on plan facing east with a flat-roofed corridor to the rear connecting to a two-storey rendered block, built c.1989. Set within its own landscaped grounds on the north side of Rock Road with large bitmac car park to the east. Hipped natural slate roof on a U-plan with black clay ridge tiles and three replacement rendered chimneystacks. Moulded cast-iron guttering to bracketed overhanging eaves course and cast-iron downpipes. Painted rendered walling with rusticated rendered quoins and moulded trim to plinth course. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, hood mouldings, painted masonry sills and single-pane timber sash windows with convex horns. Symmetrical three-bay two-storey over basement front elevation with central portico. Ground floor window openings are set within shallow bay projections that rise from basement level having lead-lined hood cornice with a central window and slender sidelights flanked by slender pilasters supporting plain entablature and rising from continuous sill with plain panelled aprons. Square-headed principal entrance has a tripartite timber doorcase comprising a four-panel timber door and fixed-pane sidelights flanked by slender pilasters and scrolled console brackets supporting a lintel cornice and tripartite glazed overlight. Door opens onto sandstone paved platform and five sandstone steps bridging the basement area. The doorcase is flanked by Doric pilasters with responding Ionic columns supporting a full dentilated entablature with felt covering. Platform and steps enclosed by original wrought-iron railings with a replacement steel railing enclosing the basement area. South side elevation has three windows to the first floor and two windows to the ground floor, detailed as per ground floor windows to the front elevation. Tripartite windows openings to the basement with plain surrounds. Randomly-placed window openings to west rear elevation having single-pane timber sash windows and later timber casement windows. Abutting the centre of the rear elevation is a flat-roofed rendered corridor connecting the house to a two-storey rendered block. North side elevation has randomly-placed window openings detailed as per first floor of the front elevation. A flat-roofed single-storey extension abuts the right hand side of this elevation. Materials: Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Painted render Windows Timber sash Setting Set back on the north side of Rock Road on a slightly elevated site with mature trees and planting to the south, with no boundary wall and a large bitmac parking area to the east. Although physically separated by Rock Road, it now forms part of the Magee University Campus to the south.