Ongoing restoration works at Ballynatray Estate in west Waterford continue, with a new set of plans submitted this week, which include the construction of a tennis court on the estate grounds.<\/p>\n
The estate has undergone significant work since coming under the ownership last year of multibillionaire vacuum cleaner magnate James Dyson for a reported fee of \u20ac30 million.<\/p>\n
Previously planned at the site in recent months has been the restoration of the estate’s gatehouses, various demolition works, and the installation of a new internal lift within the iconic residence.<\/p>\n
Also being planned on the grounds is a helicopter landing area. These plans were subsequently appealed and are currently being inspected by An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la.<\/p>\n
New plans submitted this week outline intentions to construct a tennis court on the grounds of the estate.<\/p>\n
The tennis court is proposed in the estate’s upper garden, a former 19th-century production or kitchen garden for the house.<\/p>\n
It is proposed to remove all gravel paths, flower beds, timber steps and hedging within the garden to facilitate the provision of the new tennis court.<\/p>\n
Also contained within the new plans are intentions to make alterations to the estate\u2019s folly.<\/p>\n
The folly, located to the east of the estate\u2019s stable yards, is a rubble stone structure which features a Gothic arched doorway and window opening.<\/p>\n
It was built in the late eighteenth century and was created as a lookout to provide sheltered views across the estate.<\/p>\n
There is currently no floor, and only a small number of the structure\u2019s wall capping stones survive.<\/p>\n
Proposed works to the folly include the installation of a mono-pitched slate roof to match the structure’s original roof profile and the installation of new timber-framed windows.<\/p>\n
“We confirm there are no demolitions proposed to the Folly,” a planning report submitted by the applicant outlined.<\/p>\n
A decision on whether to grant permission for these developments is expected from Waterford City and County Council by October 27th.<\/p>\n
Ballynatray is an 850-acre estate featuring an 18th-century classical-style house, with an associated farm complex.<\/p>\n
The house is listed within the Record of Protected Structures and by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.<\/p>\n
According to the Historic Houses of Ireland index, Ballynatray is eleven bays long and five bays wide, and of two storeys over a basement. The house has a late-Georgian appearance.<\/p>\n
The index says: “The interior was clearly built for entertaining on the grandest scale, with a sumptuous suite of interconnecting reception rooms, all with stupendous views, wide, double mahogany doors and some fine early nineteenth century plasterwork.”<\/p>\n
The residence was seen last year, almost entirely enclosed in scaffolding and screening as restoration works commenced.<\/p>\n
The house was also extensively worked on in the late 1990s by a previous owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ongoing restoration works at Ballynatray Estate in west Waterford continue, with a new set of plans submitted this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153254724231744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}