Ballyrane House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, occupied 1885, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor on a half-octagonal plan. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1958. Resold, 1990. Extended, 1992, producing present composition. Sold, 1993. Replacement hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber double gates.

A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the prevailing late Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase, albeit one largely concealed behind a polygonal porch; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the farmhouse over the course of the twentieth century. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with Sarah Lett (----), '[Living on] Interest of Money' (NA 1901); Edward Meadows (1857-1918), 'late of Ballyrane House Killinick County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1918, n.p.); and Colonel Cormac Cullinan Furney (1899-1969).