Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
Detached four-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1770, having later three-bay single-storey cut stone entrance porch/portico to the centre of the main elevation (west), added c. 1795. Hipped natural slate roofs (purple slates) with overhanging eaves, plain ashlar eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with cut stone detailing. Roughcast rendered walls with projecting cut stone plinth course, and with projecting ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation (west). Monolithic astylar ashlar limestone piers/pillars supporting plain entablature over to porch. Square-headed window openings having cut stones sills, and with hornless six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground and first floor levels and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at second floor level. Timber panelled shutters to interior. Recessed square-headed doorways to the side elevations of porch (north and south) having timber panelled doors with cast-iron latticed sidelights and overlight, added c. 1900. Timber panelled door behind porch set in moulded architraved ashlar limestone doorcase. Staircase to interior remodelled, c. 1860; Neoclassical plasterwork (c. 1794) and lugged five-panelled doors to interior. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped and parkland grounds to the east of Ballintra. Earlier formerly detached house attached to the south (see 40910401), now forming wing to present house, and complex of outbuildings (see 40910413) and remains of walled gardens to the south-east.
This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.