Ballynacourty Point Lighthouse

Detached three-bay single-storey lighthouse keeper's house with dormer attic, built 1858, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, iron-covered cut-granite coping to gables with granite ashlar chimney stacks to apexes on cut-granite cushion courses on granite ashlar bases having cut-granite stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, central rooflight to front (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite thumbnail beaded consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and yellow brick block-and-start surround framing replacement glazed aluminium door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set on headland in grounds shared with Ballynacourty Point Lighthouse.

A house erected to a design by George Halpin Junior (1804-69), Inspector of Works and Lighthouses for the Ballast Board (appointed 1854; resigned 1862), representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear footprint centred on a somewhat featureless doorcase; and the stone work embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjacent Ballynacourty Point Lighthouse (see 22822005) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement overlooking Dungarvan Harbour.