Manor Court House, 176 Ballagh Road, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 5DJ

Manor Court House is a Gothic revival manor court house with tower and entrance porch, together with an adjoining two-storey dwelling, aligned west to east on the north side of Ballagh Road near Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. Dating from 1853, the complex comprises a single-storey tail (bay 1) and a two-storey cross gable (bay 2) forming the main house.

The building features a pitched natural slate roof with a large cement-coped brick chimney set perpendicular to the ridge of the cross gable at its centre; the brickwork suggests modern rebuilding. The eaves are overhanging with exposed rafter tails and decorative scalloped timber bargeboards to all gables. Rainwater goods are half-round metal. The walls are lime rendered over rubble stone. Most windows are currently boarded over, with flush sandstone cills; some openings have rendered brick heads or relieving arches.

The principal elevation faces south. Bay 1 contains a 2/4 top-hung casement window to the left. The tower abuts immediately to its right, with a string course around the top of its first stage above which it projects as a free-standing element. The tower is detailed as the main block with a pyramidal natural slate roof supported on four stone brackets to each side. All openings are arrow-loop windows with dressed stone jambs, heads and flush cills. The south (front) elevation has a window at each stage, the west elevation has windows to stages two and three only, the north elevation has a window opening to stage three, and the east elevation has a window opening to stage three.

The entrance porch is positioned in the angle between the tower and main block, with a pitched natural slate roof. The south face contains a Tudor-headed vertical-and-groove sheeted door to centre with decorative strap hinges. The right cheek has a tall window opening infilled with concrete blocks, the left cheek abuts the tower, and the rear abuts the main block. To the right of the porch is a large 2x2 top-hung casement window.

The projecting cross gable has a window to each floor; the ground-floor window is landscape format, while the first-floor window is similar but slightly diminished in width. The left gable of bay 1 has a projecting bay to centre with a lean-to natural slate roof sloping to the west and decorative bargeboards matching the house. This bay contains three tall windows to the front face and one to each cheek, all separated by thick finely dressed sandstone mullions with a continuous flush stone cill. Above is a stone plaque reading "Armagh / Manor / Court House / 1853".

The rear elevation is abutted to the extreme right by the remains of a lean-to outbuilding. To the immediate left of the outbuilding is a 1/2 top-hung casement window with a projecting stone cill. The projecting cross gable of the dwelling at the left has a pair of 3x3 fixed-pane windows with central timber mullion and common stone cill to the first floor. The projecting section of its right cheek has a vertical-and-groove sheeted door.

The outbuilding is now roofless, formerly covered by a monopitched roof sloping to the east, with rubble stone walls comprising two bays, each with a door opening to the east face. The east elevation is abutted by a projecting gabled porch centred on the façade, containing a Tudor-headed door with tall windows to each side infilled with concrete blocks and flush stone cills. To either side of the porch is a large window; that to the left is boarded with vertical-and-groove sheeting, that to the right with corrugated metal.

The building sits within a small rear yard enclosed by the main block, outbuildings and a high rubble stone wall, with elevated wooded area beyond. The building is maturely planted all around and enclosed from the road by a thick hedge. Access is via a small wrought-iron gate with fleur-de-lys finials and dog-bars supported on square-section cement-rendered gate piers with pyramidal stone caps.