Ballyarnett House, Racecourse Road, Londonderry, BT48 8NG

Sited on rising ground of 1.25 hectares above the Racecourse Road, approached by a winding avenue through green pasture. A 2½ storey, three bay wide Georgian style house, deeper in plan than width with single storey side return of four bays on the north east side. The 2nd floor appears as a series of dormers to front and rear. The south east entrance façade has central fanlighted panelled door with narrow sidelights and flat roofed portico supported on Roman Doric columns. On either side there are tripartite sliding sash windows. On first floor 12 pane sliding sash windows centrally placed over openings below. Walls smooth rendered and colour washed with quoins and plinth. Three dormers in roof centrally placed over windows below and with nine pane sliding sash. The south facing tripartite windows have replaced single storey canted bays. The south west façade is four bays wide and has 12 pane sliding sash windows widely spaced. The north east facade has irregularly spaced and various sized sliding sash windows with double windows to the staircase landing. From this facade extends the single storey return, one room deep, with separate entrance door and shallow flat roofed portico. Windows sliding sash widely spaced, walls finished as main house. Gable end has single pedestrian door and garage door. This return is said to be the original part of the house dating from 17th century. North west or rear facade of main block three bays wide with 12 pane sliding sash windows at ground and 1st floor and three dormers above. The rear dormers are original, those on the south east facade were added in general renovations of four/five years ago. All exterior walls are similarly treated. The natural slated roof, likewise recently done, presents a pitched roof all round with a lesser span pitched roof over the central corridor which means some internal downpipes which originally supplied cisterns on 2nd floor. Four chimney stacks rise from roofs with tall pots. Present owner has added a series of Velux type rooflights. The tops of walls on main house have panelled frieze broken up with pairs of consoles under eaves overhang. At the entrance to avenue metal gates, metal piers and curving railing is Federal & Empire style.