Kilmux House

Dated 1830. Small 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan classical villa with pedimented centre bay, Ionic portico and enclosed single storey courtyard to rear. Fine Adamesque oval hall. Squared and coursed rock-faced rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings; snecked rubble to courtyard. Base and 1st floor cill courses, eaves cornice and blocking course. Segmental-headed door, round-headed window panels. Voussoirs.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Ionic portico with tablet to entablature and 3 steps up to broad panelled timber door with narrow flanking lights and semicircular fanlight, windows in recessed round-headed panels to flanking bays and regular fenestration to 1st floor, small glazed oculus in tympanum.

SW ELEVATION: 3 windows to each floor; 3 further windows to single storey bay to outer left.

NE ELEVATION: mirrors W elevation, but with bipartite window to centre at 1st floor.

NW (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: centre bay with broad gateway, slightly recessed segmental-headed cart arch with 2-leaf boarded timber gate, and flanking pedestrian doorways, that to left with boarded timber door, that to right blocked; deep coped course breaking eaves above, and sturdy outer stacks. Flanking blank piended bays.

INNER COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: datestone over cart entrance; variety of openings to side elevations including louvered door; rear of house with advanced centre bay, blinded outer windows and partly-obscured centre window to 1st floor, and lower 2-storey rubble bay projecting to centre.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, those to ground S fixed; 12- and 16- pane glazing patterns to single storey elevations. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme surviving. Includes, full-height oval hall with 8 lugged, architraved doorways and bowed doors to ground floor; curving stair (off hall) with decorative cast-iron balusters returning to oval landing with round-headed niches and domed ceiling with decoratively-astragalled lantern. Marble, stone and timber fireplaces; decorative architraves to doors (reeded); decorative plasterwork cornices and panelled ceilings; panelled dadoes and shutters. Small vaulted cellar with 'Musgrave's of London and Belfast' patent boiler.