Survey Data
Reg No
14920002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1770 - 1810
Coordinates
261691, 225449
Date Recorded
08/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1790, with return to rear, extensions to rear and flanking lean-to additions hidden behind screen walls. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and decorative lion's head brackets. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with aluminum windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround and timber panelled door with limestone threshold. Glazed overlight with fanlight detail. Outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs and random coursed walls.
Appraisal
This substantial farmhouse represents the adaptation of classical house design into the vernacular tradition. The cast-iron profiled rainwater goods and in particular the lion's head brackets are an unusually decorative and ornamental feature for an otherwise simple building. The symmetry of Ballydermot House created by the positioning of the windows and doors is further accentuated by the flanking screen walls. The house, entrance gates and outbuildings form an interesting group of farm related structures.