Brennanstown House — Brennanstown Road

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built 1842, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor on a half-octagonal plan; two-bay single-storey flanking wings. Occupied, 1911. "Improved", 1930, producing present composition. Sold, 1940. For sale, 1966. Hipped slate roof; hipped slate roofs behind parapets (wings), clay ridge tiles, rendered buttressed chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined plinth with rendered, ruled and lined monolithic pilasters to corners. Central door opening into country house. Square-headed window openings in round-headed recesses (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-nine timber sash window (breakfront). Set in landscaped grounds with tuck pointed granite ashlar piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting cast-iron double gates.