Survey Data
Reg No
15319015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
236383, 238983
Date Recorded
27/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having a single-storey outbuilding attached to the south gable end and a later projecting gable-fronted single-bay entrance porch to the centre of the main façade (west). Pitched natural slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (north and south) and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorcase to the south face of projecting porch having a timber sheeted door flanked by sidelights. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Ballynagore. Single-storey outbuildings to site having roughcast rendered walls and pitched corrugated metal roofs. Wrought-iron flat bar gate to the southwest side of road-frontage.
Appraisal
A good quality vernacular farmhouse, which retains its early form and character. This charming building is of a type once very common in rural Ireland but it is now very rare to come across an example so close to its original form and retaining its early fabric, making it an important survival. The complex of modest outbuildings and the wrought-iron gate complete the setting of this near complete early-to-mid nineteenth-century vernacular farm complex. This building is a worthy addition to the built heritage of the local area, adding incident to its pleasant rural location. However, it is currently vacant and in danger of slipping in to a state of dereliction.