Kilmux House

Kilmux House is a small, classical villa dating from 1830. It is two storeys and has an attic, built on a rectangular plan with a prominent pedimented centre bay and an Ionic portico. A single-storey courtyard is enclosed to the rear. The house is constructed of squared and coursed rock-faced rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings; snecked rubble is used for the courtyard. Features include base and first floor cill courses, an eaves cornice, a blocking course, segmental-headed doorways, and round-headed window panels, all with voussoirs.

The south (principal) elevation is dominated by the Ionic portico, which has a tablet to the entablature and three steps leading to a broad panelled timber door with narrow flanking lights and a semicircular fanlight. Windows are recessed within round-headed panels. A small glazed oculus is located in the tympanum above.

The west and east elevations each feature three windows to each floor, with a further three windows to a single-storey bay to the outer left of the west elevation. The north elevation mirrors the west elevation, but with a bipartite window at first floor level in the centre.

The north-west (courtyard) elevation features a central bay with a broad gateway, incorporating a slightly recessed segmental-headed cart arch with a two-leaf boarded timber gate, and flanking pedestrian doorways, the one to the left having a boarded timber door, and the one to the right being blocked. A deep coped course breaks the eaves above, and sturdy outer stacks are present. Flanking the gateway are blank, piended bays.

The inner courtyard has datestones above the cart entrance and a variety of openings to the side elevations, including a louvered door. The rear of the house features an advanced centre bay, blinded outer windows, and a partly-obscured centre window to the first floor, along with a lower two-storey rubble bay projecting to the centre.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing; those on the ground floor south are fixed. The single-storey elevations have 12- and 16-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates, with coped ashlar stacks.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including a full-height oval hall with eight lugged, architraved doorways and bowed doors to the ground floor. A curving staircase rises from the hall, featuring decorative cast-iron balusters and leading to an oval landing with round-headed niches and a domed ceiling with a decoratively-astragalled lantern. Marble, stone, and timber fireplaces are present, along with decorative architraves to doors (reeded), and decorative plasterwork cornices and panelled ceilings. Panelled dadoes and shutters are also retained. A small vaulted cellar contains a 'Musgrave's of London and Belfast' patent boiler.