Cilrhue

Cilrhue is a gentry house built between 1700 and 1750, enlarged around 1830, and restored in 1993-1994. The building is roughcast with a slate roof and new brick end stacks, featuring paired brackets at the eaves. It has a two-storey front with five windows, which are hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills and stucco cambered heads. The central entrance consists of a 7-panel door, three of which are glazed, and there is an applied slate plinth. An external chimneybreast is located on the south end wall.

At the rear, there is an added parallel range that is also roughcast, with bracket eaves and brick end stacks supporting a renewed slate roof. This range has three windows, including a large earlier 19th-century 12-pane sash on each floor to the left, a narrow centre window and door, and a three-storey section to the right with a 6-pane attic window and 12-pane windows on the first and ground floors. To the right, there is an outbuilding featuring a castellated parapet.

To the left of the main front is a service range, likely built in the early 19th century, constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and a very large stone and brick centre ridge stack. This two-storey, four-window range has hornless 12-pane sashes with red-brick heads, although the second window on each floor is blank. The north end gable has a pedimental slate course and a 6-pane attic window. The rear of this range includes two doors and three windows above, with two being blank.

Inside, there is a fine early to mid-18th-century broad staircase that is dog-legged in four flights to the attic, featuring thick moulded rails, a pulvinated string, and square newels. Most of the turned balusters have been renewed. The staircase extends into the rear range, suggesting that an earlier stair tower was extended on each side in the early 19th century, although there is no evidence of internal stone walls. The ground floor room to the right has mid-18th-century fielded panelling with a timber cornice, and there is additional panelling on the hall wall adjoining it. The roof contains five large pegged oak collar trusses, one of which has a scarfed post over the stair, indicating that the stair is later than the roof.