Cartron Hall — Battery Road

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1845, with single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the main façade (west), three-storey extension to rear (east) and with a three-bay single-storey entrance porch to the north elevation.

The saved account records: Hipped natural slate and artificial slate roofs with overhanging bracketed eaves.

The saved account records: Central pair of rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The saved account records: Five-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear with central three-bay breakfront, pitched natural slate roof, random rubble stone walls and square-headed openings.

Cartron Hall — Battery Road matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This attractive villa style mid nineteenth-century house retains its early character and charm. It is of a type/form that was commonly built in the expanding suburbs of the large cities and towns, particularly Dublin, during the early-to-mid nineteenth century but which is relatively uncommon in the midlands. The relative simplicity of its form is enlivened with fine examples of craftsmanship, including the joinery of the pointed segmental-headed timber sash windows, while the symmetry is visually pleasing. In scale and form this house fits in with the character of the streetscape, and its sympathetic… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.