Survey Data
Reg No
31938002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Previous Name
Emlaghyroyin
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1780
Coordinates
176531, 265518
Date Recorded
12/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former country house over basement, built c.1770, with single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with stone chimneystacks and limestone eaves course. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and tripartite timber sliding sash windows. Blind windows to side elevations. Round-headed doorway with limestone surround, timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, accessed by sweeping limestone steps. L-plan outbuildings to cobbled enclosed yard to rear, with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Many interior features survive, such as plaster cornices to main reception rooms, and flags to basement floor. Limestone gates piers to front of site with simple wrought-iron gate.
Appraisal
The scale and form of Emlaghyroyin House is characteristic of the style of architecture popular in the mid-eighteenth century, with a marked emphasis on symmetry, creating an impression of stability and harmonious balance. The enclosed rear cobbled yard with the L-plan outbuildings is typical of the arrangement common in substantial houses of this period and enhances the setting.