Survey Data
Reg No
31311112
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Farmhill House
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Date
1841 - 1893
Coordinates
132504, 272428
Date Recorded
12/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1893, including: Detached three-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber batons on collared timber construction with ridge tiles now missing, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with tooled hammered limestone lintel framing timber boarded door. Camber- or segmental-headed flanking carriageways with tooled hammered limestone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone sills, and tooled hammered limestone lintels with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Carradoyne House.
Appraisal
A dilapidated farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Carradoyne House estate.