
Overview
Ballyglan House is recorded as country house in Waterford. Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, extant 1799, on an E-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey returns centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey return (west). Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan behind parapet with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or square profile tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods (west) on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling
People and work
The saved account records: Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, extant 1799, on an E-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey returns centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey return (west).
How it changed
The saved account records: Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan behind parapet with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or square profile tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods (west) on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes.
What survives
The saved account records: Rendered walls with moulded rendered cornice to parapet.
Why it mattered
Ballyglan House matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A country house representing an important component of the late eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition, one erected by Sir Joshua Paul (1748-99) on the occasion of his marriage (1771) to Sarah Gun (d. 1824), confirmed by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking Woodstown Strand; the elongated plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; the dramatic diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
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