Barnlongart, Ballimore Estate

Barnlongart, Ballimore Estate

A later to late 19th-century house, possibly remodelled by William Leiper or William Hunter McNab in the early 20th century. The building is an asymmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay dwelling in English Domestic style, with a 2-storey rear wing stepped out at first floor creating a T-plan. A square-plan, 2-storey tower stands in the re-entrant angle to the east, with a single-storey addition occupying the re-entrant angle to the west.

The walls are harled with sandstone dressings, partly droved, and a slatted timber tower. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves run throughout, with timber bargeboards. Narrow quoin strips edge the angles; stone cills sit at ground level to the front, with sandstone margins in places. The roof is grey slate with timber-bolted bargeboards to the front and dentilled bargeboards to the sides. Coped red sandstone apex stacks carry circular cans.

The north entrance elevation features a timber bracketed gabled porch projecting at centre with a round-arched central opening, timber panelled door, and 3-pane round-arched fanlight. A timber-mullioned bipartite window aligns at first floor. To the right, a single-storey lean-to projection adjoins the porch, incorporating a 5-light angled glazing row to the outer right and a single window with an uneven gabled dormerhead breaking the eaves above. To the outer left stands a full-height bowed projection with 5-light glazing at ground and 7-light glazing at first floor beneath an overhanging gablehead.

The east side elevation shows the principal gable end to the right with a single window at ground to the left, and a slightly recessed bowed projection to the right. A gabled porch is recessed to the outer right. A single window sits at ground in a bay recessed to the left, with a blind first-floor projection above. The taller 2-storey tower adjoins to the left with windows at both floors. A lower 2-storey wing is recessed to the outer left with a bipartite window at ground and a stepped-out first floor featuring a timber-mullioned bipartite window at centre.

The south rear elevation displays a 2-storey wing projecting at centre, with a single window at ground to the left, boarded opening to the right, and a window in the first floor stepped out to the left, plus a single window at first floor to the right. The taller 2-storey tower recesses to the right, with a part-glazed timber door at ground to the left, 3-pane fanlight above, and multi-pane windows at ground to the right and aligned at first floor. The principal block recesses to the outer right. A blind elevation faces the principal block to the outer left, while a piended addition occupies the re-entrant angle to the right.

The west side elevation presents the principal gable end to the left with a single window at ground to the right and a projecting window recessed to the left, with a gabled porch recessed to the outer left. A 3-bay wing recesses to the right, with single windows at ground centred in one bay and to the left in another, and a boarded timber door at ground to the outer right. The first floor steps out with timber-mullioned bipartite windows breaking the eaves in gabled bays flanking the centre. A small opening sits in the single-storey piended addition in the re-entrant angle to the left.

Windows throughout are various timber casements and sash-and-case types, with 4-, 6-, 8-, and 12-pane configurations. Flanking the entrance are 4-pane upper lights with plate glass lower lights.

The interior contains a timber-panelled reception room with timber-panelled doors; the remainder was not seen during the 1999 survey.

A single-storey, 5-bay ancillary structure stands to the southeast. It is harled with overhanging timber bracketed eaves. The west entrance elevation features a boarded timber door at centre, single windows in flanking bays, a boarded timber door to the outer left, and a single window to the outer right. Windows are 12-pane timber sash-and-case types. The grey slate piended roof carries a gabled louvred ridge vent and a sandstone-coped harled ridge stack with circular cans. The interior has rendered rubble walls with shelving and hooks in place in part, and a boarded timber ceiling.