Ballywhite House, County Down

Ballywhite House, County Down

Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 29. “(Ker/IFR; Brownlow/IFR) A two storey double gable-ended C18 house, enlarged and embellished in the Italianate manner ca 1870 for a Mr Warnock, solicitor, of Downpatrick. The entrance door in the side of a large pedimented projection built in the centre of the front, with coupled Corinthian pilasters in its upper storey. Entablatures over the ground floor windows of the front, segmental pediments over the windows in the gable ends; and at one end, a single storey bow. The other end of the house is joined to a single-storey ballroom wing by a pleasant Victorian conservatory. Owned for a period by Captain Richard Ker, of Portravo, who sold it to the Brownlow family 1916.” 

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