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Ballard House — BALLARD (Corkaree By.)

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Ballard House — BALLARD (Corkaree By.)
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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built or rebuilt c.1830. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wet dash rendered walls over plinth course with a smooth rendered band at eaves level and quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered architraves and replacement windows, timber casement windows to the ground floor openings and uPVC to the second floor openings. Central round-headed door opening with rendered architraved surround and a replacement timber door having a plain overlight above. Doorcase flanked to either side by tripartite/Wyatt window openings. Limestone steps flanked to either side by cast-iron railings give access to doorway. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Horseleap, adjacent to border with Co. Offaly to the west. Complex of outbuildings to the rear (west). Main entrance gates to the southwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers, on square-plan with moulded capstones over, supporting a pair of decorative cast-iron gates.

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