Castle Farm — Ballyduff

The saved account records: Carriageway (profile obscured by ivy) with timber boarded double doors.(iv) Remains of freestanding three-bay three-storey rubble stone Jacobean house, built 1627, to south.

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1825, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building, 1627, on site with single-bay single-storey end bay with half-dormer attic to south-east, and single-bay two-storey return to north-east.

The saved account records: Hipped gabled slate roof (pitched to end bay and to return) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000.

The saved account records: Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, remains of unpainted lime render over, and cut-stone stringcourse to top floor.

Castle Farm — Ballyduff matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This group of buildings is of considerable significance, representing a long-standing presence on the site, dating back at least to the turn of the seventeenth century. The complex is dominated by a picturesque ruined Jacobean house, designed and built by Andrew Tucker (n. d.) for the First Earl of Cork (1566 – 1643), which is of archaeological importance, while the arrangement of the present buildings appears to date from this period. The house, dating to the nineteenth century but possibly incorporating the fabric of earlier buildings on site, is an attractive composition of balanced proportions that retains… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.