Survey Data
Reg No
32401502
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Store/warehouse
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
171629, 339053
Date Recorded
13/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey-over-basement rendered former house, built c. 1830, now derelict and used as store. L-plan, single-bay break-front to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, painted twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to ground floor, eight-over-eight to first floor, six-over-six to other elevations. Round-headed entrance door opening, plain flanking polished ashlar pilasters, moulded archivolt, wrought-iron cobweb fanlight, original door missing. Set in former demesne. Farmyard to east with single- and two-storey roughcast and stone buildings some with elliptical-headed carriage openings. Two-storey L-plan outbuilding to north, hipped slate roof, squared and coursed rubble stone walling, ashlar dressings, in advanced state of dereliction. Detached three-bay single-storey stone former summer house, built c. 1885, now derelict, to the northeast of main house. Hipped slate roof, clay hip tiles. Squared and coursed rubble limestone walling, brick eaves corbel course. Square-headed window openings, brick dressings, limestone sills, windows missing. Square-headed door opening, brick dressings, door missing. Interior contains two round-headed semi-circular brick niches to south-east and south-west corners. Roof structure designed to form base for shallow dome on elliptical plan. South-facing, set against rubble stone north wall of former walled garden, date stone 1883, Doonally House to southwest.
Appraisal
This, once handsome, house and attendant extensive farm outbuildings, now sorely neglected, nevertheless retains much of interest including good quality stonework around the entrance door, sash windows and slate roof. The farm buildings are also largely intact and exhibit good stonework. The little summer house to the northeast is of more interest than is immediately apparent. The interior, which appears not to have been finished, suggests quite elaborate designs for its final appearance.