Survey Data
Reg No
12402846
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1740 - 1760
Coordinates
260197, 144035
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, c.1750, including: Detached nine-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-dormer attic on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor, and two-bay single-storey projecting end bay to left having pair of elliptical-headed carriageways. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rooflights, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded eaves (possibly carved cut-limestone eaves). Painted roughcast walls with red brick walls to porch. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows with some having two-over-two timber sash windows with overlights. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled doors (some having overlights). Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to end bay with fittings not discernible. Set back from road in grounds shared with Kilmurry House.
Appraisal
A middle-size range contributing significantly to the group and setting values of the Kilmurry House estate while attesting to the various services put in place to facilitate the operation of a substantial landholding in the mid eighteenth century. Notwithstanding the utilitarian purpose of the complex a number of distinctive attributes elevate the architectural design value beyond the merely functional including the elegant bipartite arrangement to some openings, the introduction of red brick in the construction, some fine detailing, and so on. Having been well maintained to present an early aspect the outbuilding makes a positive contribution to the character of the grounds.