Rosbercon Castle — Thomastown Road

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey over part raised basement country house, extant 1815, on a U-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan with single-bay (four-bay deep) two-storey towers abutting two-bay single-storey flush end bays. Leased, 1857. "Improved", 1860, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof part behind parapet; flat roofs behind parapets (towers); pitched (gable-fronted) slate roofs behind parapets (end bays), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks supporting ribbed terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls to front (east) elevation on rendered chamfered plinth with cut-granite obelisk pinnacle-topped rendered Irish battlemented parapets having rendered coping; fine roughcast surface finish (remainder) on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement in square-headed recesses (towers), cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows (ground floor) or four-over-four timber sash windows (first floor). Square-headed blind window openings (end bays) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing rendered infill. Square-headed central window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-one (north) or one-over-one (south) timber sash windows having stained glass margins. Set in landscaped grounds.