Farranasa House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880 and rebuilt 1922, with two-bay end elevations, lower single-bay return and more single-storey lean-to slate addition to rear and having canted-bay windows to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and overhanging eaves and with pitched slate roof to return. Painted smooth rendered walls having render quoins to front and side elevations. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, decorative render surrounds and painted sills. Lights of bay windows separated by pilasters with moulded render capitals. Segmental-headed door opening with painted moulded render surround to timber panelled door spoked fanlight and sidelights, latter with timber panels below. Associated outbuildings have pitched artificial slate roofs and rendered walls. Cut limestone gate piers and rock-faced limestone walls to front of site with replacement timber gate.

This house is typical of a small country house. It is separated in design from vernacular architecture through the influence of classical designs such as the centrally-placed chimneystacks and the segmental-headed door opening. Built on the site of an earlier house which was burnt during the Civil War, this building is a reminder of our turbulent past.