Barraghcore House — Goresbridge

Detached four-bay two-storey Classical-style country house with dormer attic, c.1850, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, on site with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced end bay to right, single-bay two-storey side elevation having canted bay window to ground floor, four-bay two-storey range along rear (west) elevation having single-bay full-height gabled advanced bay, and three-bay two-storey return to south-west. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan (pitched slate roof to parallel range continuing into return on an L-shaped plan; gabled to advance bay; gabled to dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having moulded cornices, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls on tooled cut-granite plinth with rock-faced dressed limestone walls to porch having cut-granite dressings including block-and-start quoins to corners incorporating bull-nose detailing, frieze on stringcourse, carved cornice, blocking course to parapet, and painted roughcast walls to rear (west) elevation having rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-granite sills (on cut-granite panelled risers to ground floor), moulded rendered surrounds (on consoles to canted bay window), and one-over-one timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation (some two-over-two timber sash windows throughout having eight-over-eight timber sash window to advanced bay). Round-headed door opening to porch on two cut-granite steps with cut-granite panelled pilaster doorcase having moulded necking, paired consoles supporting open-bed pediment, bull-nose reveals to door opening, timber panelled double doors having overlight, square-headed flanking window openings on cut-granite panelled risers having block-and-start surrounds, chamfered reveals, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.