House in Ballynascraw

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having gable-fronted entrance porch addition to front façade (east). Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and two rendered chimneystacks. Hipped artificial slate roof to porch. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with some tooled cut limestone, some rendered sills and having mainly one-over-one timber sliding sash windows; some modern replacement windows. Segmental-headed door opening to porch north face of porch having half-glazed timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights. Single-storey outbuilding to rear having pitched corrugated-metal roof and roughly coursed dressed limestone walls. Set in own grounds to the southeast of Ballinalee. Set at a right-angle to the road alignment. Gateway to the north, recessed from road, having rendered boundary walls and gate piers (on square-plan).

This plain but robust farmhouse, of indeterminable date (probably early-to-mid nineteenth century), retains much of its early character and form. Farmhouses such as this were a regular feature of the Irish countryside but few remain intact with their early features as in this case, where notably the timber sliding sash windows survive. The simple complex of outbuildings to the rear adds to the setting and completes this unassuming composition, which adds to the rural landscape to the southeast of Ballinalee.