Belleek Manor

Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, begun 1825; completed 1831, on an E-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront; nine-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation centred on three-bay two-storey breakfront. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1942. Vacant, 1948. In alternative use, 1954. Vacated, 1956. Sold, 1961, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roofs on an E-shaped plan behind parapet with pressed or rolled lead ridges, limestone ashlar octagonal chimney stacks on cut-limestone chamfered cushion courses on limestone ashlar bases having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, part iron-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables with cut-limestone octagonal pinnacles to apexes, and concealed rainwater goods retaining embossed cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipes. Tuck pointed drag edged dragged limestone ashlar walls to front (south) elevation on moulded cushion course on drag edged dragged cut-limestone plinth with pinnacle-topped drag edged dragged limestone ashlar octagonal piers to corners centred on drag edged dragged limestone ashlar battlemented octagonal piers to corners (breakfront); tuck pointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar surface finish (remainder) on moulded cushion course on drag edged dragged cut-limestone plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Hipped Tudor-headed central door opening approached by flight of four drag edged tooled cut-limestone steps, dragged cut-limestone doorcase with engaged colonettes supporting archivolt framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights on shield-detailed panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with carved timber cruciform mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings framing one-over-one (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall with polished Portland Stone flagged floor, carved timber neo-Jacobean chimneypiece, quatrefoil-detailed carved timber Gothic-style surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and fan vaulted ceiling with carved timber ribs on panelled octagonal corbels centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having moss-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting quatrefoil-detailed cast-iron double gates.