Ormonde House

Ormonde House is a detached house, dating from circa 1790, situated on Sion Hill, and now converted into apartments. It was altered in the mid-19th century and extended in the late 20th century to create the apartments. The house is built of limestone ashlar, painted up to the attic storey, with a rubble stone return wall. It has a double-pitched slate roof and moulded stacks to the returns.

The main façade is symmetrical with a seven-window range, featuring three windows within each canted bay. A coped parapet and cornice adorn the attic storey, which has six-pane sash windows. The first-floor cornice forms a sill string course to the attic and follows the parapets of the 19th-century two-storey canted bays. These bays feature first-floor French windows with three panes, and two-pane overlights, opening onto a balcony with cast iron balustrades supported by cast iron columns on an ashlar plinth. This balcony extends over an enclosed porch, which has clasping Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature over a semicircular arch, a plain fanlight, and double bolection moulded six-panel doors with narrow side lights. The ground floor windows in the bays are similar to those on the first floor, but with plain overlights. The right return wall has six-pane sash windows in the centre, with 20th-century windows to the left. Modern windows and doors are present at the rear, along with a three-storey 20th-century wing to the left. The interior has not been inspected.