Corfad House

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, now ruinous. Roofless, with paired rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having remains of multiple-pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening, having carved stone lintel supported on round-plan Doric-style columns, with timber panelled door. Decorative plasterwork to interior. Partial remains of walled garden to west. Outbuildings forming yard to rear (south), now derelict, comprising multiple-bay single-storey range to east, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and rubble stone walls. Multiple-bay two-storey range to south, having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, segmental-headed windows with timber louvres, and square-headed window openings with timber fixed-pane windows, both with cut-stone sills, and segmental-headed integral carriage arch. Set in own grounds.

One of several houses in the Aughnamullen area which indicate, through their size, detailing and craftsmanship, the prosperity of the area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Many of these houses, including this one, were associated with owners of nearby watermills, all fed from Crieve Lough. Although ruinous, the scale of the building remains evident, and skilled workmanship is apparent in the doorcase and the interior plasterwork. The builders took advantage of the natural undulations of the landscape to site the house on a height, to benefit from attractive views of the landscape.