Mount Ballan House

Mount Ballan House is a large rendered house, likely built over a rubble stone base, with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Constructed in the 1830s, it exemplifies the Tudor Gothic style popular during that period. The house is two storeys high, with a later single-storey wing added to the north.

The east-facing entrance elevation features four gabled bays, the rightmost of which is probably an addition by Thomas Walker, designed to match the rest of the house. The first bay has a canted bay window with one, two, and one lights, featuring Tudor tracery and a castellated parapet. A plat band runs along the elevation and partially around the house. Above the bay window is a three-light mullioned window, and within the gable sits a carved shield and the date 1837 on a scroll. The gable is adorned with elaborately carved bargeboards and a spike finial. The second bay projects as a two-storey porch, featuring a four-centred arch with a dripmould and carved royal head stops. The inner doorway has diamond stops to the architrave, and the door itself has a two-light window with coloured glass and relief panelling below. A small window is on one return of the porch, topped by a panel with a shield and a two-light window, with a gable matching the others. The third bay has a single-light Tudor window below and a large 4x3-light stair window above, with a panel and gable. The fourth bay (added in the 1880s) is set back and has a 2-light and a 3-light window below, and two 2-light windows above, all with matching gables. A single-storey wing extends to the right with two two-light windows. Four tall, contemporary stacks rise from the building, each with one, two, or three flues in a Tudor style.

The south front has two gabled bays to the left, and a further set-back bay to the right, which is the flank wall of the first bay on the entrance front. The south elevation features a four-light window above and below in the first bay, a canted bay window below and a four-light window above in the second bay, and a three-light window below in the third bay, each with dripmoulds. A plain three-light window sits above the third bay. The west front includes a two-storey canted bay window, a plain bay with a single light window, a second two-storey canted bay window, and further single light windows to the right.

The house was not accessible for inspection and is currently unoccupied, awaiting redevelopment.