Survey Data
Reg No
15701909
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
287880, 140724
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, dated 1834, on a quadrangular plan including (east): Attached three- or five-bay double-height coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; five-bay two-storey courtyard (west) elevation centred on three-bay two-storey lean-to breakfront. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (west), remains of pressed or rolled lead-covered ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone battered walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; channelled granite ashlar surface finish on cut-granite chamfered plinth (breakfront) with cut-granite flush quoins to corners supporting cut-granite pediment. Round-headed central opening (breakfront) with cut-granite archivolt framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel. Elliptical-headed central opening to courtyard (west) elevation with schist-inserted cut-granite voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystone. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing remains of timber fittings having lattice glazing bars. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex surviving as an interesting relic of the Ballyhighland estate following the demolition of the eponymous country house with the architectural value of the composition, one conveying the spirit of the 'handsome house [erected by] the late Mr. Howlin JP [John Howlin (1797-1857)]' (Hickey alias Doyle 1868, 174-5), confirmed by such attributes as the quadrangular plan form centred on a Classically-detailed frontispiece demonstrating good quality workmanship in a silver-grey granite.