Survey Data
Reg No
31303012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1840 - 1869
Coordinates
121553, 319438
Date Recorded
25/02/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey "cottage farmhouse", extant 1869, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey off-central return (north). Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on overhanging eaves forming "veranda" on cast- or wrought iron pillars. Rendered wall to front (south) elevation; limewashed lime rendered surface finish (remainder). Hipped square-headed central door opening with rendered surround framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills[?], and rendered surrounds framing four-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A dilapidated "cottage farmhouse" representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic architectural heritage of the rural environs of Ballina. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a "cottage farmhouse" having historic connections with James Joynt (1826-82), Land Agent (Slater 1881); and Thomas Levingston (1845/6-1920), 'Head Constable Royal Irish Constabulary [and] Land Agent' (NA 1911).