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.]

“A two storey three bay C18 house. Primitive Venetian windows with slightly pointed heads on either side of roundheaded rusticated doorcase; Wyatt windows above.”

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12800903/belan-house-belan-county-laois

Three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1750, with pedimented central breakfront. Three-bay two-storey Georgian house, c.1790, attached to rear. Now derelict. Double-pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, nap rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered brick walls with limestone course to eaves. Venetian-style window openings to ground floor, Wyatt-style window openings to first floor with limestone sills and timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with block-and-start doorcase and timber panelled door with fanlight. Timber panelled shutters to window openings; timber panelled intrados to Venetian window. House set back from road in own grounds; overgrown grounds to site. Group of detached outbuildings to site. Gateway to front comprising rendered piers with wrought iron gates.

https://propertypriceregisterireland.com/details/belan_house_mountrath_road_portlaoise_co_laois_ireland-383118/

Sold for € 275,000 on 2019-04-16. First appeared on 2019-05-15.