Ballynacree House, Ballymoney, County Antrim 

Ballynacree House, Ballymoney, County Antrim 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 25. “Moore, Bt, of Moore Lodge/PB) An earlier house of two storeys and five bays, remodelled in Victorian Italianate style 1861 to the design of Fitzgibbon Louch; faced in red brick with sandstone dressings. Segmental pediments on console brackets over ground floor windows; single-storey Ionic portico, the windows over it being set in a recess; eaved roof on bracket cornice. Hall with Tower of the Winds columns; double staircase with iron balusters; richly moulded circles of acanthus on ceilings of two principal reception rooms, with cornices to match.” 

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