Survey Data
Reg No
14938001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Castletown
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
211177, 202065
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1800, with two bays added to south-east, c.1840. Entrance porch to front elevation and return to rear. Pitched slate roof, half-hipped to north-west, with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete and limestone sills and timber sash windows. Dormer timber sash window to return. Timber panelled and glazed door to entrance porch, round-headed former front elevation door opening within entrance porch. Timber battened door to rear. Outbuildings and stables to rear yard including a half-hipped outbuildings and multiple-bay two-storey barn with diamond brick vents to upper floor. Remains of castle to south-east of house. Single-storey T-plan gate lodge with pitched slate roof and timber sash windows. Wrought-iron double gates supported by rendered panelled piers ad flanked by quadrant walls terminating in piers. Disused ER VII post box, c.1905, located in wall to north-west of entrance gates.
Appraisal
Located beside the remains of a stone bawn with battered base, Castletown House comprises an earlier house incorporated into an early nineteenth-century house. The style, size and window box on the earlier timber sash windows to the rear of the farmhouse contrast with the later timber sash windows on the front elevation. The fine entrance gates are an elegant entrance to the farmhouse.