Callinafercy House, CALLANAFERSY WEST, KERRY

Description

Detached three-bay two-storey triple-gable-fronted Jacobean Revival style house, dated 1861, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre and single-bay side elevations having single-storey flat-roofed projecting canted bay window to south elevation. Extended to south-west, c. 1910, comprising three-bay two-storey Jacobean Revival style parallel block with dormer attic and three-bay two-storey return with dormer attic on a T-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey staggered parallel range and two-bay two-storey projecting bay with dormer attic at right angles to south west. Steeply pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, gable copings, grouped chimneystacks, ball finials to springers, profiled cast-iron gutters and square downpipes. Roughcast rendered walls with render moulded plinth. Exposed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins to part of north wing and including blocked openings. Render shield to central gable of facade. Paired or tripled timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills, render architraves and hood mouldings on lion-head bosses. Projecting gabled porch with square-headed door openings having timber four-panel doors to either side of porch. Stable complex, built c. 1865, to south-west about a courtyard comprising: Detached four-bay single-storey range retaining original fenestration. Detached two-bay single-storey stone-built outbuilding. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built range with corrugated-iron roof. Detached two-bay two-storey house with two-bay single-storey wing to south. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding with pair of square-headed integral carriage arches. Gateway to courtyard comprising pair of rubble stone piers with cast-iron gates. Gateway, built c. 1865, to north-east comprising four cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings.