Survey Data
Reg No
13400811
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Lismoy Upper
Original Use
Outbuilding
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
211916, 279900
Date Recorded
27/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached eight-bay two-storey outbuilding associated with Lismoy House (13400811), built c. 1800. Hipped natural slate roof with a redbrick chimneystack having dog-tooth detailing. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with flush dressed block-and-start limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed openings with flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and having timber louvred fittings to openings. Slit vents/loop holes and rectangular openings with flush dressed limestone surrounds, some with block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door openings with flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors Segmental-headed integral carriage arch to the east end of the main elevation having flush dressed limestone block-and-start surround, dressed limestone voussoirs and modern corrugated-metal sliding door. Located to the west of Lismoy House and to the east of Newtown-Forbes.
Appraisal
This impressive outbuilding retains its early form and character. The scale of the outbuilding is quite substantial, while the form and design is clearly architectural. It is an unusually large outbuilding to find associated with a such modestly-sized house as Lismoy. The good quality dressed limestone surrounds to the openings are of an unusually high quality for an outbuilding, and these give this building a strong architectural presence that compliments that of the main house. It survives in good condition and provides an interesting historical insight into the resources required to run and maintain a small country estate in Ireland during the nineteenth-century. This building forms part of a group of related structures along with the main house (13400812) and the gateway (13303019) and gate lodge (13303032) to the southwest, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the Newtown-Forbes area.