Survey Data
Reg No
20901705
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Historical Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
158165, 112844
Date Recorded
11/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, built c. 1820, comprising two-storey ranges of buildings enclosing two yards. Situated to north of Ballinvonear House. Yard to north comprising ten-bay range to north side with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble sandstone and limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, and elliptical-arch vehicular entrances with cut-stone voussoirs. Yard to south having L-plan range to north and east sides, with hipped corrugated-metal roof, roughly dressed sandstone walls, square-headed window openings to ground floor with roughly-dressed stone voussoirs, round-headed openings to first floor having red brick voussoirs, and segmental-arch vehicular entrances having cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone boundary wall and house to south. House is two-storey, having one bay to first floor and two bays to ground floor, pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered rubble stone and red brick walls, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with metal railings and timber battened door.
Appraisal
This is an attractive well-built farmyard complex associated with Ballinvonear House. The combination of red sandstone and limestone used along with the high quality of the stonework gives the buildings distinctive character.