Water Lodge — BALREGAN

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1840. Square-plan. Hipped slate roofs, lead ridges and hips, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves, painted timber soffit supported on paired eaves brackets, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to basement, stone plinth, red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, block-an-start stone quoins. Square-headed window openings, tolled stone sills, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-six sliding sash windows to first floor and basement, one-over-two sliding sash windows to ground floor north elevation, round-headed window opening to north elevation, multiple-pane sliding sash window. Round-headed door opening to west elevation, painted stone door surround comprising fluted Doric columns supporting frieze with metope, cornice and petal fanlight, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels, stone steps to entrance flanked by wrought-iron railings; square-headed door opening to basement north elevation, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Stone plinth wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings, cast-iron newel posts surrounds basement area. Random rubble wall to west, stone coping, stone stile, flanking roughcast piers, flat capping. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to south-west; hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, cast-iron gutters; squared-and-snecked stone walling; square-headed loops to east elevation, square-headed window openings, stone sills, brick surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted shutters; segmental-headed door openings, carriage arch to north elevation, recessed to lower section of jambs, stone surround, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Girder bridge c. 1840 to south-east, timber carriageway, central random rubble V cutwater, tubular steel balustrade. House set in own grounds accessed to south-east through painted smooth rendered gate piers, painted stone ball-finials, cast-iron gates.