Survey Data
Reg No
15401211
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
244229, 259439
Date Recorded
20/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey former estate worker's house on L-shaped plan, built c.1820. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone with shallow segmental-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Projecting slated canopy porch supported on timber brackets at centre (adjacent to gable-fronted section at junction of 'L') with square-headed doorcase. Set back from road in own grounds.
Appraisal
A substantial early nineteenth-century house, which retains its early form and character. Although economical in terms of decoration and detail, this sturdy composition has considerable roadside presence on account of the quality of the stone masonry used in its construction. The proximity of this structure to the former Ballynagall Demesne suggests that this may have been a large estate worker's house or, perhaps, an estate manager's residence when originally built. Indeed, this building is not unlike a school building dating from the early nineteenth-century.