Ballybetagh House

Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1837, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey double-pile return with half-dormer attic (west). Occupied, 1911. Sold, 2000. Restored, 2002-3. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan behind parapet with pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with cut-granite coping to parapet. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.