Elagh Hall, 9 Elagh Road, Londonderry, BT48 8LU

A 1½ storey, 5 bay wide entrance facade with chamfered projecting 2 storey porch, roughcast rendered and colour washed, with 1½ storey back return. The symmetrical facade has entrance door in centre of porch with moulded and lugged plaster surround with small keystone. Above it a round headed window with similar plaster surround and keystone with radiating astragals and modern inserts below. Similar windows are repeated on return walls at first floor. Pair of 12 pane sliding sash windows on either side on porch, again with matching moulded and lugged surrounds with small keystone. Cills are low to ground. Above these windows a single sliding sash 2 pane window centred over the windows below and similarly treated with surrounds. These windows form dormers set in the same place as the wall below. The external angles of the porch are chamfered or canted and under the eaves a smooth band of rendering as a frieze. A similar band of smooth rendering forms the narrow clasping quoins which are also repeated at the dormers. The external rendering is of a much later date than the house and the window cills have been extended in concrete to provide a stop for the surrounds. The porch has flanking windows on ground floor. The gables are half hipped with the hips projecting slightly between the tallish wide chimney stacks on each side.le. There are a pair of sliding sash 2 pane windows without surrounds at first floor on west gable. The pair on the east gable have surrounds and are symmetrically placed below the half hip and between the chimneys. On the west gable there is a modern flat roofed conservatory and to the left hand side of it a single ground floor sliding sash 2 pane window. The back return on the west side has a modern large window at ground floor with a single dormer above, gabled with sliding sash 12 pane window, set almost in the corner, lighting the lounge. The first floor windows are similar to the west gable. The roofs have natural slates and likewise the dormers with plain ridge tiles and faceted roof to porch picking up the wall chamfer. There is no overhang and half round metal gutters are supported on metal brackets with circular downpipes in cast iron. The house is set on a hillside with a long winding avenue climbing steeply up to it from Elagh Road. It commands a fine prospect from the south. There are no gates or piers. To the rear of the house some outbuildings, with yard. Around 2 sides of the house a garden.