Ballykine House — BALLYKINE LOWER

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey game keeper's house with half-dormer attic, built 1862

The saved account records: extant 1894, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor.

The saved account records: Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use.

The saved account records: Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered plinth with drag edged dragged cut-limestone flush quoins to corners.

Ballykine House — BALLYKINE LOWER matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A house erected by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868) of Ashford Castle (Dublin Builder 1862, 213) representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the rural environs of Cong with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary forester's house (1862) at Lislaughera (see 31312013), confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing with the principal "apartments" defined by bay windows; and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.