Survey Data
Reg No
31311710
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Steward's house
Date
1870 - 1894
Coordinates
116666, 266147
Date Recorded
12/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey farm steward's house with half-dormer attic, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan with three-bay single-storey rear (south-west) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof centred on hipped slate roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on rendered base having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows centred on two-over-two timber sash windows (half-dormer attic). Set in courtyard in unkempt grounds shared with Creagh House.
Appraisal
A cottage-like farm steward's house contributing positively to the group and setting values of the much diminished Creagh House estate with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a canopied doorcase; and the dramatic diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with a succession of farm stewards including Mark Lally (----), 'Steward [and] Gardener' (NA 1911).