Bessborough — Bessboro Road

Detached seven-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built 1760, on a square plan centred on three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Sold, 1922, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cornices below capping supporting terracotta pots. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners supporting bitumen felt-covered cut-limestone cornice. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of five bull nose-detailed cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone doorcase with rusticated pilasters on plinths supporting ogee-detailed open bed pediment on fluted consoles framing timber panelled door having overlight. Venetian window (first floor) with cut-limestone sill on fluted consoles, and cut-limestone surround with monolithic mullions supporting ogee-detailed cornice on frieze on architrave framing replacement uPVC windows. Diocletian window (top floor) with cut-limestone sill, monolithic mullions, and cut-limestone archivolt framing replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with cut-limestone double keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows (ground floor) or replacement uPVC windows (upper floors). Set in landscaped grounds with cut-limestone cylindrical piers to perimeter having beaded cornices below fluted dome finial-topped capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.