Ballygarra House

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (north). "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 2005-6. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops; pitched slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gable with red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Stained lime rendered battered walls; rendered surface finish (north). Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered chamfered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron double gates.