Survey Data
Reg No
15702018
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
300421, 142770
Date Recorded
14/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1840, including (west): Detached eleven-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on wrought iron brackets retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with rough cut limestone flush quoins to corners. Series of five elliptical-headed carriageways (south) with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door openings (north) with overgrown thresholds, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded doors; (north): Walled garden on a rectangular plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having rendered rounded coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Solsborough House.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex surviving as an interesting relic of the Solsborough House estate following the destruction (1933) and subsequent demolition (1980) of the eponymous country house described (1837) as 'a handsome mansion situated in a finely wooded demesne...commanding a pleasing view of the town of Enniscorthy and the river Slaney' (Lewis 1837 I, 357).