Ballyready House

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1700, now in use as farm house. Recent pitched-roofed porch to front (north) elevation and two-bay single-storey pitched-roofed extension to east gable. Steeply pitched slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks and brick eaves course, including dogtooth course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with four-pane fixed window to ground floor rear (south) elevation, replacement windows and door to other openings. Outbuildings to yard to east of house comprising single- and two-storey outbuildings to west range, and single-storey outbuildings to south and west ranges, that to west having lean-to corrugated-iron roof, others having pitched slate roofs, all with partly rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Roughcast rendered garden wall to front of house with wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

The long narrow appearance of this house, with the end chimneystacks and the steeply pitched roof are evidence of an early eighteenth-century construction. The simple form, clarity of lines, and symmetrical elevation make a pleasing structure. Although it has lost its sash windows, the small window openings, and the irregular fenestration to the rear are retained. Nearby outbuildings add context to the site.