Garbally

Detached two-storey over basement country house, built 1819, having two internal courtyards, renovated and courtyards filled in c.1850. Now in use as secondary school. Front (north) and side (east and west) elevations have eleven bays and south has nine bays. Three bays of each end of front and west elevations are set into slight advances, and front elevation has tetrastyle porte cochère flanked by less advanced two-bay porticos. South elevation has middle five bays recessed slightly, with bowed flat-roofed three-bay single-storey former porch, doorway now accommodating window. East elevation has fully exposed basement, middle seven bays are set back between two-storey two-bay wide and deep returns with single-bay two-storey flat-roof blocks to re-entrant corners. Northern has slightly lower single-bay two-storey block to east, three-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to east again and three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south. Southern return to house has multiple-bay two-storey block to east. East elevation of house and blocks to east form three-sided yard with cobbled surface. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, moulded limestone parapets and cornices. Rendered walls with cut limestone platband between floors, plinth course and moulded sill courses. Cut coursed limestone walls to bowed former porch. Square decorative ceramic heraldic plaques to first floor above same. Snecked limestone walls to blocks of re-entrant corners and to blocks to east of northern return. Square-headed window openings having moulded limestone surrounds, those to ground floor having alternating segmental and triangular pediments, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Former doorway to porch has timber panelled to base of window, and cut limestone step. Square-headed door opening to north elevation, having timber panelled double-leaf door, with multi-pane margined overlight and carved limestone surround comprising pilasters with plinths, capitals and entablature, and with cut limestone step to width of porte cochère. Porte cochère comprises carved limestone tetrastyle Doric portico flanked by shallower bays with respondent pilasters, all with moulded bases and capitals and supporting entablature and moulded cornice with modillions. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates and cut limestone balustrade to either side of west elevation. House set in mature landscape with formal terraced gardens, having cut limestone steps to west, and sun dial on cut and carved limestone pedestal to south. Garden entrance to north-east having cast-iron double-leaf gate with square-profile cut-stone piers, flanking spear-headed railings on cut-stone plinth wall. Disused five-bay single-storey garden structure having ashlar limestone loggia with arcaded front, end bays slightly advanced, having moulded cornice and plinths, round-headed doorway and window openings to inner wall with margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with bars, and square-headed doorways to end walls leading to rear. Glasshouse adjacent has cast-iron superstructure over ashlar limestone plinth wall, with coping and plinth.