Gorteen House — Ballinalee

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with gabled porch to centre of front elevation (southeast), box bay window with mono-pitched roof and lean-to glass house to southwest elevation, canted bay window to northeast elevation, and with two-bay two-storey and single-bay two-storey extensions with pitched roofs to rear, added c. 1880. Hipped slate roof with ridge capping and two central rendered chimneystacks. Decorative timber bargeboards to porch, rear gables and box bay windows. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Red brick walls to box bay window. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to southwest side of porch with replacement timber door and limestone step. Set in extensive mature grounds to the south of Ballinalee, overlooking Gorteen Lough to the southeast. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear with pitched corrugated-metal roofs (two with raised limestone verges), roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber half-doors and with fixed timber or timber sliding sash windows. Wrought-iron field gate to the west. Entrance gateway to the northwest of house, at start of approach avenue, having rendered walls, rendered gate piers with cut stone capstones and having decorative cast-iron gates.