Tullystown House

Detached three-bay two-storey single-pile house, built c.1800 and altered c.1840, with projecting single-bay breakfront to front façade (north). Two-storey return to the rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with raised cut stone verges to edges and a pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks to centre. Lime roughcast rendered walls, randomly scored, over a projecting plinth with a projecting ashlar limestone sill course at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with timber transoms and mullions forming three-over-three arrangement, cut stone sills to ground floor openings. Central segmental-headed doorcase having cut limestone surround with integrated sidelights and a 'spider's web' fanlight over. Replacement timber panelled double-doors reached by flight of cut stone steps. Set back from road with extensive ranges of outbuildings to southeast (15400113). Main entrance to the south.

An attractive and charming house, with a pleasing symmetry, which retains much of its original character and fabric. The combination of classical elements, such as the tripartite doorcase with a fanlight and the breakfront, with the more Tudor Gothic-style transomed and mullioned windows is unusual and a noteworthy feature. The cut limestone doorcase is an interesting feature of artistic interest that helps to distinguish this appealing building. The narrow single-pile plan suggests that this could be a structure of some antiquity, which was subsequently given a Classical remodelling in the early nineteenth-century creating its present aspect. This interesting house forms the centrepiece of an attractive group of related structures along with the extensive ranges of outbuildings (15400113) to the rear. The remains of a late medieval tower house (WM001-014---), incorporated into the fabric of the outbuildings to the rear, also suggests that this site may have early origins.