Ballymurphy House, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ballymurphy House in Ballymurphy has windows that get smaller upstairs and an ornate iron porch at the door. It spends the introduction telling you how delighted it is to see you, then gradually narrows its eyes.

Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, with adjoining T-plan stable block and two-storey extension to rear (north east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening with carved timber architrave surround and timber glazed double-leaf doors with overlight. Wrought-iron portico in front and approached by cut limestone steps. Multiple-bay two-storey stable block to rear with segmental-arched integral carriage-arch to west range, having pitched and hipped slate roofs with painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors with overlight above. Cut limestone square-profile piers to front of site having rubble limestone walls and replacement gates.

Set within its own grounds, Ballymurphy House displays qualities of architectural design. The simple façade is enlivened by the diminishing window sizes with tooled limestone sills. The ornate wrought-iron portico adds a decorative focus to the house. The fine outbuildings to the rear further enhance this architectural group.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902203

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