Ballymore House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with two-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to front, and having slightly lower flat-roofed return and two-storey addition to rear and single-storey extensions to east and west gables. Hipped slate roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls, with smooth render to quoins. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and some eight-over-eight pane to east elevation of addition, all with tooled limestone sills. Porch has fixed timber windows with concrete sills and square-headed door opening in side with double leaf timber panelled door with paned overlight, all opes being flanked by render pilasters with limestone plinths. Metal water tanks, one atop steel structure, one to roof of return. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to yard, with hipped and pitched slate roofs and whitewashed walls, one with segmental carriage arch. Segmental-headed entrance archway to yard with wrought-iron gates. Quadrant entrance gateway with decorative cast-iron gates and railings with cast-iron piers and rendered plinth walls.

This well-proportioned house is typical of an early eighteenth-century small country house. The centrally-positioned chimneystacks and tall windows adds a sense of grandeur to the building while the overhanging eaves anchor the building in the landscape. The associated outbuildings and fine entrance gates contribute to the site.