building misc — Ballagh Street

Detached three-bay two-storey medical officer's house, sanctioned 1881; completed 1884; extant 1895, on an F-shaped plan with single-bay (east) or two-bay (west) two-storey side elevations centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (south). Occupied, 1911. Disused, 2008. Renovated, 2009, to accommodate proposed alternative use. Hipped slate roof on an F-shaped plan with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves having timber consoles. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Camber-headed central door opening. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central vestibule; camber-headed door opening into entrance hall with timber mullions framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight; entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of street in unkempt grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having truncated pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron gate.