Survey Data
Reg No
15704732
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
297621, 109073
Date Recorded
03/05/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1840, including: Walled garden on a rounded cornered square plan with coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown rubble stone rounded coping; red brick Running bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in wood in grounds originally shared with Ballycross House.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex surviving as an interesting relic of the Ballycross House estate following the demolition (1948) of the eponymous country house erected (1837) by John Rowe JP DL (1807-69), one-time High Sheriff of County Wexford (fl. 1858), 'a large square building of comparatively recent erection and ample proportions…surrounded and embellished with ornamental pleasure-grounds [and] enriched with fine plantations' (Lacy 1863, 446).