Bawnlahan

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1740, with various extensions to rear (north-east). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house to rear, in form of two-storey pitched roof block. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble limestone construction with roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth, corners bands and eaves band. Remains of slate hanging to rear. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door having spoked fanlight and flanking sidelights with four-over-four timber sliding sash windows. Ranges of outbuildings to rear, having rubble stone walls and pitched slate roofs.

Though renovated in the twentieth century with the insertion of one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and addition of roughcast render with smooth render detailing, this eighteenth century house retains much of its early character. The two-storey block to the rear, set perpendicular to the main house, with a steeply pitched roof and irregularly placed openings may be an earlier house which was incorporated in the later building. The fenestration rhythm and tripartite entrance are typical eighteenth century features. The survival of the slate hanging to the rear is of great interest and possibly indicates that the house was once clad in this characteristic Munster style. The ranges of outbuildings add context to the site.