Balyna House — BALLINA

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Classical-style house with dormer attic, built 1872, incorporating basement of earlier house on site and retaining early fenestration with prostyle tetrastyle advanced Ionic portico to centre ground floor, single-bay two-storey flanking canted bay windows, four-bay two-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west, and three-bay two-storey rear elevation to north-west having single-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Mansard roof with slate (gabled to dormer attic windows and to pediment). Clay ridge tiles Rendered chimney stacks. Rainwater goods not visible behind blocking course. Flat-roofed to portico. Materials not visible. Rendered walls. Painted. Rendered dressings including channelled piers to ends, moulded sting/sill courses to both floors and moulded cornice to eaves on consoles. Square-headed openings. Stone sills (continuing into sill course). Moulded rendered surrounds (including pilaster motif to openings to centre first floor over portico). 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening behind cut-limestone prostyle tetrastyle Ironic portico with frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course. Moulded rendered surround to door opening. Glazed timber panelled doors. Interior to ground floor including entrance hall, stairhall, saloons/drawing rooms and dining room. Moulded timber surrounds to door opening. Timber panelled shutters to window openings. Moulded plaster cornices to ceilings. Groin vaulted ceilings to basement with barrel-vaulted subterranean tunnel to outbuildings to west. Set back from road in own extensive demesne grounds approach by formal beech-line avenue.