Manor House, 28 High Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7

Manor House at 28 High Street, Moneymore

A large detached three-storey building with basement, five bays wide across its principal elevation, flanked by two smaller single-bay wings with shallow back returns. The building stands at the north end of High Street where it meets Smith and Lawford Street.

The principal (front) elevation is symmetrically composed with a central projecting porch containing a pair of Tuscan columns and respond pilasters supporting an entablature. The entrance door is four panels, framed and moulded, with a deep fanlight divided into nine panes. The central three bays form a breakfront. At ground floor level, on each side of the porch, there is a twelve-pane double hung sliding sash window with stone cill and horizontal cornice hood moulding. The first floor contains three twelve-pane double hung sliding sash windows with wider horizontal cornice hood moulding carried on corbel brackets. The second floor has three twelve-pane double hung sliding sash windows. Above these runs a frieze band extending across all three bays, topped by a heavy cornice of equal length and a balustraded parapet. On each side of the breakfront, there are tripartite pedimented windows with double hung sliding sashes subdivided into twelve-pane and four-pane lights. At first and second floor levels similar tripartite windows appear without pediments but with horizontal cornice hood mouldings supported on corbel brackets. The wall terminates in a low solid parapet, lower than the central balustrading.

The roof is natural slated with moulded gable chimney stacks and two further chimneys centred on the roof ridge in line with the breakfront. The walls are smooth rendered and painted.

The south wing contains a crudely pedimented doorway with gate piers and double gates adjoining. The north wing is L-shaped in plan with several windows, and due to the fall in ground level, has a flight of steps ascending to it. It is also adjoined by a pair of gate piers and metal gates leading into the yard behind, which now contains only one former stable structure. The north and south gables are windowless except for the wing porches, smooth rendered and painted with central chimney stacks.

The rear elevation contains a recently erected back return four floors high with a lean-to roof, occupying a bay and a half. This return has double hung sliding sash two-pane windows at each landing level and similar windows on flanking walls. The main block behind has twelve-pane double hung sliding sash windows to each floor and bay, with walls terminating in a solid parapet. The north wing has a rectangular projecting bay with a large tripartite window contained between clasping buttresses, with a single four-pane double hung sliding sash window beneath. The south wing returns round the rear of the main block to abut the back return and has a large tripartite window with two four-pane double hung sliding sash windows under it. Both wings have flat roofs with low parapets. All walls are smooth rendered and painted.

To the front of the building is an area with a low wall. Steps ascend to the main porch, and two basement windows are visible towards the north end. Much of the outbuildings to the rear have been demolished. In the garden there is a large-scale model of the 17th-century Plantation town of Moneymore.