Bridge House in Ballymascanlan

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. Porch extension to south, conservatory to west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick and rendered corbelled chimneystacks, engaged roughcast rendered chimneystack to north-west gable, rendered eaves course, half-round metal gutters. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, smooth rendered recessed plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber three-over-six timber sliding sash windows to south elevation, six-over-six to ground floor north elevation, painted timber Wyatt window to north-east gable, circular window to first floor north elevation, painted timber casement. Square-headed door opening, painted timber and glass sheeted door. Set within own grounds, gardens to north, east and west. Random rubble boundary wall to south.

Built on the footprint of a Willamette War field hospital, this early-nineteenth-century house was extensively restored c. 1990. The survival seventeenth-century building fabric within the structure is possible and adds to the interest of this well proportioned structure.