Bannow

Bannow is a large house built between 1877 and 1879 by the architect Norman Shaw. The building features a stone ground floor with fish-scale tile hanging above, and it has three projecting gables that mimic timber framing, supported by brackets. The roof is tiled, and the house stands three storeys tall with three windows. The ground floor has large stone mullion and transom windows, while the upper floors have wooden windows. The first floor overhangs on brackets, and there is a canted bay on the right-hand side at the first and second floors, topped by a projecting gable. The left-hand side has a return gable. Tall brick chimney stacks with diagonally set brick shafts are present, and the right-hand return facing Quarry Hill features wide overhangs on the first and second floors, with sham timber framing and a long band of ten-light windows on the first floor. The ground floor entrance is a moulded pointed arch. Drawings of the house were displayed at the Royal Academy, and a sketch was published in the British Architect on July 15, 1887.