Limegrove House

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1800. Refenestrated, c.1925. Extensively renovated. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having rendered stringcourses, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on stepped eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoined piers to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered surround having keystone, replacement timber panelled door having sidelights, and overlight. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast boundary wall having painted rendered piers, and iron double gates.(ii) Attached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with dormer attic, c.1800, to east on an L-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey projecting bay to right. Extensively renovated to accommodate residential use. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, rendered coping, rooflights, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part ivy-clad unpainted replacement roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having timber casement window to front (south) elevation. Square-headed door openings with replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors having sidelight.(iii) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, c.1850, to north. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, iron ridges, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors.

A pleasant modest-scale house retaining most of the original composition attributes together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric both to the exterior and to the interior. An attendant outbuilding range having been sympathetically adapted to an alternative use enhances the visual appeal of the site while the survival of further ancillary ranges contributes to the group and setting values of a site forming an appealing feature in the outskirts of Ballyhale.