Estate Cottages, 178-182 Ballagh Road, Ballagh, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 5DJ

Estate Cottages

A symmetrical Gothic Revival 'H' plan building aligned north-west to south-east on the north side of Ballagh Road. The structure consists of a single-storey central section flanked by one-and-a-half storey cross-gabled sections to either side, with each component comprising two bays and housing a single dwelling. The building is now heavily overgrown.

All roofs are steeply pitched and finished in natural slate. A tall cement-rendered chimney comprises three individual octagonal stacks positioned at each end of the central section. Half-round metal rainwater goods are supported on overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. The gables retain the remains of scalloped bargeboards. The walls are lime-rendered and painted. All windows are the remains of 2x3 timber side-hung casements with timber mullions (unless otherwise stated) and have stone cills. Many are ruinous and some are boarded over.

The central section has its principal elevation facing south-west, where it is abutted at the centre by a projecting gabled entrance porch rising above eaves level. To either side is a pair of windows with a central mullion. The porch is detailed as the main block and has a single window (without mullion) to either side of its south-west face. The right and left cheeks each have a door opening; the door to the right is infilled. The left and right gables are completely abutted by the flanking cross-gabled sections. The rear elevation is almost completely abutted by a single-storey flat-roofed annexe. The exposed left end is blank. The annexe has a flat slated roof with walls as the main block. There is a door opening to either side of its north-east face; that to the left shares its frame with a 2x2 metal-framed top-hung casement without cill. The left cheek is blank, whilst the right cheek abuts the projecting cheek of the right cross-gabled section.

The left cross-gable has its principal gable facing south-west and a window set to the centre of each floor. The ground-floor window is a group of four 2x4 windows divided by three mullions. The first-floor window is a pair of 2x3 windows with a central mullion. The north-west elevation has a group of three windows divided by two mullions set to the ground floor left. The north-east gable has a window opening to the first floor. The south-east elevation is abutted to centre by the single-storey section. The exposed left end has a four-panelled door. The exposed right end is abutted by the annexe.

The right cross-gable constitutes the mirror image of that to the left, with the exception of a tongued-and-grooved-sheeted entrance door to the exposed left end of the north-west elevation (in place of the annexe).

Two identical single-storey outbuildings are set gable to the road at either end of the main block (to north-east and south-west respectively) and are linked to it by cast-iron railings. Both are detailed as house with pitched natural slate roofs; that to the left outbuilding has been replaced with corrugated perspex. Each has a Gothic-headed window opening to the south-west gable, set in an advanced brick reveal with two brick mullions. House-facing elevations each have a door opening to either end. Other elevations are blank.

The group faces directly onto the road, with a small grassed area to the front. To the rear is an elevated bank planted with mature trees.