Rath House, Ballybrittas, Co Laois 

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. 238. “(Dease, sub Bland/IFR) A C19 Classical house of two storeys over basement. Semi-circular pillared porch. Attractive Victorian domed conservatory at end of house, facing onto a formal garden. The other end of the front is prolonged by a range containing a domestic chapel in simple Gothic and an archway leading into the yard. Circular entrance hall; handsome library. The seat of a branch of the Deases of Turbotstown; inherited by Mr Rory Bland, of the Blandsfort family.” 

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Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1850. Extended, c.1890, with domed conservatory and private chapel added. Designed by Richard Turner. Detached gate lodge, c.1890, to site. Double-pitched and hipped slate roof with chimneystack to centre with decorative clay pots and overhanging eaves on paired timber brackets. Limestone ashlar walls with limestone quoins and stringcourses. Nap rendered to side elevations with ruled and lined detail. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and single pane timber sash windows. Wyatt-style window opening to centre first floor. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Timber panelled internal shutters with window openings; marble fireplace to room to front. Set back from road in own grounds; landscaped grounds to site; gravel drive and forecourt to approach. Group of detached outbuildings to site. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic to site with gabled projecting porch.