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Ballycanvan House — BALLYCANVAN BIG

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Ballycanvan House — BALLYCANVAN BIG
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Attached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, extant 1776, on a rectangular plan; three- or five-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront on a bowed plan. Sold, 1792. Leased, 1805-18. Leased, 1818-29. Leased, 1829-36. Sold, 1857. Occupied, 1901; 1911. In ruins, 1922. Roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish. Round-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and dressings removed with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins including bow-ended central hall with fragments of dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in overgrown grounds.

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