Ballynavin Castle

Detached five-bay two-storey house over basement with attic, largely built c.1650 and altered and extended c.1780. Single-storey flat-roof addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with skylights and three rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, six-over-six pane to front with two-over-two pane to basement and variety of two-over-two, six-over-six, eight-over-eight and bull's eye windows to rear. Tripartite window to east gable and round-headed and two dormers with carved bargeboards to rear elevation. Cut-stone doorcase with pilasters to front entrance having blind cobweb fanlight and limestone steps over basement. Single-storey outbuilding with double-height space having pyramidal slate roof and with pitched slate roof to remaining bays. Single-storey outbuilding to northwest of house having segmental-headed carriage arches with gable-fronted central block of two storeys with attic, carriage arch and pitched corrugated-sheet roofs. Medieval bawn wall with gun loop adjoins northwest gable of house. Double-arch bridge spans river directly to front of house.

A very interesting house whose irregularly-spaced windows and wide irregular chimneystacks suggest that the present building contains earlier fabric. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 describes a new and unfinished castle on this site, the remains of which are likely to be incorporated in this house which was remodelled during the Georgian period with the insertion of the front doorway and the enlargement of the windows. An unusual amount of early glazing has been retained to the windows, with some sashes retaining almost all the original panes of handmade spun glass. The very large tripartite sash to the southeast gable is also of interest and artistic merit, as is the doorcase and fanlight. Stone outbuildings of architectural value are retained while the bawn wall is of archaeological interest.