Ballyconnell House

The saved account records: Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built 1764, having single-storey bowed entrance, added c.1850, with returns to rear extended, 2008.

The saved account records: Hipped roof slate roof to main house and pitched slate roofs to returns, having rendered chimneystacks, oversailing eaves and uPVC bargeboards.

The saved account records: Formerly attached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey range of former outbuildings to rear, now heavily altered and partially converted to apartments.

The saved account records: Partially surrounded by random sandstone rubble boundary wall with square cement coping and cast-iron railings.

Ballyconnell House matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Ballyconnell Castle was completed in 1620 for Walter Talbot who had developed the town during the Plantation of Ulster. The castle was burnt and replaced in the eighteenth century by Ballyconnell House, apparently built by G. Montgomery, and retained the name "castle" well into the nineteenth century. Though recently renovated, the building retains much of its historic form, proportions, and character. The detailing in local sandstone is typical of Ballyconnell. As the former seat of the landlords of Ballyconnell, it continues to contribute to the history of the town and its surrounding hinterland. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.