Bantry House

Detached square-plan former stable block, built c.1845, comprising five-bay two-storey entrance block (north-west) with integrated carriage arch to central bay, giving access to yard at rear (south-east), enclosed by multiple-bay two-storey wings. Now in use as commercial accommodation and gallery. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, clay chimneypots and rubble stone parapet with carved stone coping. Domed cupola to central bay comprising copper roof with wrought-metal finial, supported on rendered frieze and columns. Exposed rubble stone walls with projecting cut limestone pilasters articulating bays and carved limestone pediment to central bay, having metal clock face to tympanum. Rendered sculptures of horse heads and plaques with crown motifs over openings to yard. Square-headed window openings to first floor with red brick voussoirs and timber framed casement windows. Three-centred arch openings to ground floor with red brick voussoirs and timber battened infill, some having timber casement windows and some having recent cast-iron gates. Square-headed openings to yard with timber sliding sash windows (north-east wing), two-over-two pane (north of west elevation), eight-over-eight pane (south) and timber casement windows to remainder with stone sills throughout. Three-centred arch openings to ground floor of yard having red brick voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Carved limestone Venetian style archway (north) comprising Doric piers and columns supporting full entablature broken by round-headed arch, with sculpted urns to outer edges of cornice and flight of steps to rear (south). Double-leaf wrought-iron gates to north-east. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to north-east, with hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves supported on carved timber columns and forming veranda, now disused. Sited to south-east of Bantry House.