Survey Data
Reg No
13901410
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1820 - 1825
Coordinates
294469, 293632
Date Recorded
26/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Four ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey stone stables, built 1823, attached to farm buildings to west. Stableyard with two-storey range to south and west, single-storey range to north and east, farmyard to west with freestanding iron hayshed and single-storey west range, walled garden to south, gardener's house. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, circular metal roof vents, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes, ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable of north range, pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted timber canopy supported on cast-iron columns to south-east. Random rubble uncoursed walling, roughly dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, lugged-and-kneed limestone surrounds, limestone sills, painted timber three-over-three sliding sash windows, segmental-headed opening to eastern range, red brick infill, square-headed brick arched window opening, painted timber three-over-six south window. Square-headed door openings, lugged, shouldered and kneed limestone door surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, segmental-headed carriage arches to west range. Random rubble stone steps to south. Well to north-east. Cobblestones to yard area. Farm complex to west with hay barn, random rubble stone outbuildings, accessed through wrought-iron gates within square-profile random rubble stone gate piers. Situated to west of Rahanna House and to north of walled garden.
Appraisal
This stable complex and farm buildings create an attractive group of structures associated with Rahanna House. The context of the grouping remains virtually intact, and the cobblestone yard, well and steps for mounting horses, all remain in-situ. The buildings themselves retain all the original features from sash windows, timber doors, to the bell in the bellcote, and create both an architecturally significant group of structures as well as a social interest, for these buildings are reminder of a period in Ireland's history where the big house dominated the Irish landscape and local community.