Achill

Strode House, Church House and Achill

Exposed and rendered brick, slate roof, brick and rendered chimneys. Rectangular plan with taller extension to rear, 2 storeys. To left the building is rendered, 3 windows to each floor renewed, upper floor window to right has stone plaque beneath with the inscription: `Hospitium Invalidorum Parochianorum Impensis Structum AD 1725 Thoma Pate Rogero Jones Petro Potter Iohan Edwards Guardianis.'This section is a private house known as Achill.

Central 2-window range has incised stucco and has door and casement windows. This section with the rear extension is known as Church House. To the right Strode House, a 3-window exposed brick range with dentil eaves cornice and flush casement windows. In the innermost bay of this range is a gabled brick porch with stone copings and kneelers with an arched opening which is attached to a brick front wall with stone coping. Between the porch roof and upper window is a stone plaque with the partially legible inscription. According to A N Palmer this reads: `Schola Eleemosyna Dnae Margaretae Strode Fundata 1725 ad Pauperes Ejus Sumptibus Erudiendos.'

The schoolroom in the rear extension has an exposed timber roof and a dado formed from panelling of C18 character. remainder of interior not accessible at time of 1995 survey.