Survey Data
Reg No
12402112
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
268138, 155980
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, c.1850, about a courtyard incorporating fabric of earlier complex, pre-1840, on site including: (i) Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding with camber-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered shallow gabled bellcote (with camber-headed aperture, and rendered stringcourse supporting gabled coping), and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls over random rubble limestone construction with cast-iron tie plates to first floor. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone shallow sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Camber-headed carriageway to right ground floor with timber fitting having overlight. Set back from road in grounds shared with Barraghcore House about a courtyard having random rubble limestone boundary wall incorporating elliptical-headed carriageway in dressed limestone screen with cut-limestone voussoirs, iron double gates, and cut-limestone coping to parapet. (ii) Detached single-bay two-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on dressed rubble limestone eaves. Random squared rubble limestone walls with remains of unpainted roughcast over, and slit-style apertures to first floor. Square-headed window opening with cut-stone shallow sill, and timber casement window. (iii) Detached six-bay two-storey stable outbuilding with camber-headed carriageway to ground floor. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on dressed rubble limestone eaves. Random squared rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills (no sills to ground floor), red brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with cut-granite surrounds, red brick voussoirs forming camber relieving arches over, and timber panelled doors. Camber-headed carriageway to ground floor with cut-granite surround rising into red brick voussoirs, and no fittings. (iv) Detached five-bay two-storey coach house with series of three elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on dressed limestone eaves. Random squared rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-limestone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded doors. Series of three elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor with red brick voussoirs, and no fittings. (v) Attached three-bay double-height outbuilding. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Random coursed rubble limestone walls with cast-iron tie plates. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone shallow sills, red brick dressings, and fittings not visible. (vi) Attached four-bay double-height outbuilding with series of four elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves. Random coursed squared limestone walls. Series of four elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor with red brick dressings, and fittings not visible.
Appraisal
An attractive collection of modest-scale and middle-size agricultural outbuildings arranged about a shared courtyard with the resulting cluster contributing significantly to the group and setting values of the Barraghcore House estate while indicating the various ancillary services historically necessary in the maintenance of a large-scale landholding. Each range having been well maintained with most of the original attributes surviving intact the complex makes a positive impression on the character of the site.