Survey Data
Reg No
20902817
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1660 - 1910
Coordinates
186097, 100957
Date Recorded
30/08/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey T-plan house with attic, built c. 1680, facing east and having two-pile two-storey addition of c. 1900 at right angles to front elevation, latter having two-storey box-bay projection to south side, and later flat-roof two-bay two-storey addition to south-west angle. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, that to north gable being heavy and projecting, timber consoles to front elevation and to elevations of double-pile addition, and with bargeboards to gables of latter. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with mullioned and transomed timber casement windows to front elevation, in triple, quadruple and five-light arrangements. Double six-pane and double three-pane timber casement windows and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation, and six-over-six pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and four-pane timber casement windows to gable of return, with two-over-two pane and six-over-six pane windows to flat-roof addition. Flat-roof timber canopy over entrance in northern gable of double-pile addition, having carved timber brackets over entrance comprising long square-headed paned overlight, with timber lintel below over square-headed timber panelled door flanked by four-pane fixed timber sidelights with render sills. Cut limestone carriage archway to rear, leading to courtyard of outbuildings, and having limestone imposts, string course to parapet and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates, set to rubble sandstone walls. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding having three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear with corrugated-iron roof, main block having pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed fixed timber windows, square-headed metal doors, with remains of segmental-arched vehicular entrance. Lean-to has corrugated-iron roof, coursed roughly dressed limestone walls, square-headed openings with limestone block and start surrounds, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and replacement metal doors. Remains of medieval Leitrim Castle to grounds of house. Painted rendered square-profile piers to road entrance, with rendered boundary walls.
Appraisal
This substantial house is clearly of several periods of construction, the earliest being the north-south core of the building, which is late seventeenth century in date. The late nineteenth or early twentieth-century Tudor Revival addition, with projecting gables and casement windows typical of the style, are an interesting and not inappropriate addition. The substantial chimneystack to the north gable, steep roofs and irregular window patterns to the rear are all significant features indicating the early origins of this complex house. The outbuildings to the rear are solidly constructed and provide context to the site. The remains of Leitrim Castle to the south add further interest.