Survey Data
Reg No
11804056
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Outbuilding
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
300466, 235630
Date Recorded
10/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay single-storey rubble stone mono-pitched outbuilding, c.1780, retaining original aspect. Mono-pitched roof with slate. Rendered coping to ridge. No rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Broken coursed squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Yellow brick dressings. Timber fittings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Leixlip Castle. Stone cobbled lane to front (north-west).
Appraisal
This outbuilding is an attractive long, low rubble stone range that forms an integral component of the Leixlip Castle estate. The building is of some social and historical significance, attesting to the expansion of the estate in the late eighteenth century. The rubble stone construction is a feature shared in common with further buildings in the grounds and is representative of the traditional economic method of building at the time. Well-maintained, the outbuilding retains much of its original form and character. Also of interest is the stone cobbling to the laneway to north-west, which has elsewhere been replaced or covered with tarmacadam.