Overview
Ballycanvan House — BALLYCANVAN BIG is recorded as country house in Waterford. Attached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, extant 1776, on a rectangular plan three- or five-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront on a bowed plan.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Interior in ruins including bow-ended central hall with fragments of dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling.
People and work
The saved account records: Attached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, extant 1776, on a rectangular plan
How it changed
The saved account records: three- or five-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront on a bowed plan.
What survives
The saved account records: Creeper- or ivy-covered walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish.
Why it mattered
Ballycanvan House — BALLYCANVAN BIG matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The shell of a country house erected by Cornelius Bolton Senior (c.1714-79) representing an integral component of the mid eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition, one abutting a tower house held (1640) by the Powers of Curraghmore [SMR WA010-009----], suggested by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking the winding River Suir with Little Island as a backdrop; the compact rectilinear plan form centred on the outline of a pillared doorcase repurposed by Lady Beatrix Patricia Miller (née de la Poer… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Castle (in Ruins) — Ballycanvan Bigcastleunder 0.1 miles
- Woodland House — BALLYCANVAN BIGbuilding0.3 miles
- Flour Mill — Ballycanvan Bigmonument0.4 miles
- Blenheim Lodge — BALLYMACLODEbuilding0.4 miles
- Mill — unclassified in Faithleggmonument0.5 miles
- Blenheim — BALLYMACLODEbuilding0.5 miles
- Standing stone in Ballynabolamonument0.6 miles
- Burnt mound in Ballynabolamonument0.7 miles
- Blenheim House — BALLYMACLODEbuilding0.7 miles
- Castle (in ruins) — Ballymaclodecastle0.7 miles
- Children's playground — County Waterfordattraction0.8 miles
- Faithlegg Housebuilding0.8 miles
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