farm house

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1921, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Now in ruins. Remains of hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls with rough hewn granite flush quoins to corners. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with reeded timber mullions on step threshold supporting reeded timber transom, and red brick block-and-start surround framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with remains of timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and remains of timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Ballycarney with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression.