Survey Data
Reg No
15403137
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rockfield
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
230024, 242570
Date Recorded
17/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1785. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having architraved surrounds with keystones over and replacement windows. Central round-headed doorcase to the front façade (south) having a cut stone blocked architraved surround with a scrolled keystone and fluted blocks and with timber panelled double doors having a plain fanlight over. Complex of outbuildings to the rear (north) and main entrance gates to the north (15403138). Set back from road in substantial mature grounds to the west of Ballinagore.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned modestly-scaled house, having some interesting features that help to elevate it above many of its contemporaries. It retains much of its early character and form despite the loss of early fittings to the window openings, which detracts slightly from its visual appeal. This building is distinguished by the thin architraves to the window openings and, in particular, by the remarkable doorcase, which is of high artistic merit and points to a late eighteenth-century construction date for this house. This building forms an interesting pair of related structures with the main gates to the north (15403138), while the outbuildings to the rear complete the setting.