Survey Data
Reg No
20903605
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Hunting/fishing lodge
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
185486, 99459
Date Recorded
05/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1810, facing south, having five-bay side and rear elevations, and porch to front. Now in use as fishing lodge. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone plinth course between basement and ground floor. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, with mainly square-headed openings, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor and nine-over-six pane to first floor, all with limestone sills. Camber-headed openings to basement level having six-over-six pane windows. Oeuil-de-boeuf window to west elevation with fixed glazed window and render sill. Round-headed window openings to middle bay of rear with six-over-six and six-over-three pane windows with spoked fanlights. Round-headed opening to west elevation with sixteen-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with paned fanlight and render sill. Camber-headed window opening to front of porch having six-over-six pane window with limestone sill. Porch comprising moulded render cornice and entablature with moulded render string courses and with cut limestone plinth course, having pilasters to corners with moulded limestone plinths. Camber-headed door openings with paned overlights and timber panelled double-leaf doors, approached by limestone steps. Four-bay three-storey building, possibly former mill, to east, with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, and square-headed openings with fixed timber fittings to windows and timber battened doors. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched and hipped slate roof and brick chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvers and timber battened doors, also having segmental-arch vehicular entrance to one end with corrugated-iron double-leaf doors and segmental-headed opening with timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls, segmental-arched vehicular entrance with timber battened double-leaf doors and dressed limestone voussoirs. Square-profile roughcast rendered coursed limestone piers to road entrance with sweeping walls.
Appraisal
Built on the site of Ballypatrick Castle, this house has been used as a fishing lodge by the Duke of Devonshire for many years. It is a substantial house with elegant proportions and articulated by its cut limestone plinth course. The building retains many notable features and materials such as the varied timber sash windows and slate roof. The classically inspired porch retains its timber panelled doors and flanking pilasters. The different window treatments to the side and rear provide further interest to the house. The site retains associated structures such as the solidly constructed outbuildings, which provide valuable context to the side. The piers are finely crafted and indicative of the quality of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century craftsmanship.