Bansha Castle

Detached country house, built c.1835, comprising three-bay two-storey central block with gable-fronted entrance breakfront and flanked by projecting one-and-two bay three-storey blocks, bow-fronted to front of northern block and with square tower to southern block, projecting from front and south elevations of building and having canted bay window to south. Lower two-storey return to south and north elevations. Pitched slate roof to main block, hipped to north and south returns, pyramidal to square tower and semi-conical to round projection, with terracotta ridge cresting, cast-iron rainwater goods, red-brick chimneystacks and having overhanging eaves, bracketed to façade projections. Carved timber bargeboards and finial to breakfront. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth render bands to quoins and plinth, plat-band to breakfront, decorative late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century limestone Butler armorial plaque to bow-fronted block, and raised render detail to breakfront gable. Square-headed window openings, with moulded render surrounds and painted sills, having render cornices and pilasters with entasis to ground floor of front façade. Blind lancets to front of central block, segmental-headed replacement uPVC window to breakfront with render pilasters, archivolt and keystone, and with slate-roofed canted bay window to south elevation of square tower. Timber sliding sash two-over-two windows to central block and one-over-one pane elsewhere, some paired to projections. Segmental-headed entrance porch with recessed square-headed door opening, having timber panelled Gothic-style door and arcaded over-light, with limestone steps. Rubble stone boundary wall to site, with capped coursed roughly-dressed limestone piers to entrance. Driveway to house traverses single-arch bridge with dressed limestone voussoirs and rubble walls.