Ballygriffin House — BALLYGRIFFIN (BALLYGRIFFIN PR)

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, but incorporating medieval bawn wall of tower house. Projecting fourth bay is modified mural tower of bawn and has canted-bay window. Two-bay single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof, pyramidal to tower and catslide over extension, with rendered chimneystacks and having gablets to first floor front windows. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows having limestone sills. Square-headed door opening in porch with glazed timber double doors, approached by flight of limestone steps. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding built onto south wall of bawn and has pitched slate roof and wider and higher square-plan tower to east end with pyramidal slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and elliptical-arched carriage entrance with brick voussoirs. Building also incorporates reused medieval stonework. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate roof and central elliptical-arched carriage entrance with brick voussoirs. Five-bay single-storey with attic building to east of bawn is pair of workers' houses and has pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls and limestone pediments to windbreaks, having timber battened doors. Other pitched slate outbuildings elsewhere in bawn. Remains of five-storey medieval tower house to north of house, round-arched gateway to west and flanker towers to north-west and south-west. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to west with hipped slate roof and brick chimneystack, painted roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings having limestone sills and square-headed doorway with timber battened doors. Road entrance gates with rendered piers, double-leaf cast-iron gates with sweeping rendered walls having roughly carved copings terminating in rendered piers.