Overview
Mountpatrick — BALLYVADDEN is recorded as house in Waterford. Detached five-bay single-storey house, c.1820, retaining original fenestration with single-bay single-storey canted entrance bay to centre under prostyle tetrastyle flat-roofed bowed lower portico, and four-bay single-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995, on overhanging eaves.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached five-bay single-storey house, c.1820, retaining original fenestration with single-bay single-storey canted entrance bay to centre under prostyle tetrastyle flat-roofed bowed lower portico, and four-bay single-storey side elevations.
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995, on overhanging eaves.
How it changed
The saved account records: Flat roof to portico not visible behind cornice parapet.
What survives
The saved account records: Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls.
Why it mattered
Mountpatrick — BALLYVADDEN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An elegantly-composed Regency villa-style house that has been well maintained to present an early aspect with important salient features and materials intact, both to the exterior and to the interior. The house is distinguished by a fine bowed portico, which enhances the architectural quality of the composition. Set in landscaped grounds, the house forms an appealing feature in the landscape, and contributes to the historic character of the locality. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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