Survey Data
Reg No
31935003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1740 - 1760
Coordinates
180730, 271211
Date Recorded
13/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1750, with attic storey. Flanking pavilions linked to house by screen walls and single-storey lean-to extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed stair window to rear elevation. Dormer windows to attic. Round-headed doorway flanked by stone panels and blocked-up sidelights, with replacement uPVC door and fanlight, approached by limestone flags. Two-storey coach house to rear yard with pitched slate roof, ashlar chimneystacks and random coursed stone walls. Tooled limestone surrounds to central carriage arch opening and window and door openings. Remains of walled garden to east of rear yard.
Appraisal
Ballymacurly House is an example of a mid-eighteenth-century Georgian house. It retains its original form and scale with the flanking pavilions and screen walls, an architectural composition popular in this period. The pavilions and screen walls serve to elongate the building and counter the main massing of the main house. The coach house and walled garden enhance the setting of the house.