Killynan House

Complex of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, arranged around a courtyard, with a walled garden to the east, built c.1800. Originally associated with Killynan House (now demolished). Now in use as agricultural outbuildings. Complex comprises five-bay two-storey structure on L-shaped plan, a detached three-bay double-height barn with carriage arches, a single-bay single-storey structure on hexagonal-plan to centre of courtyard and a number of ancillary structures in ruinous condition. Pitched natural slate roofs, now with sections of corrugated metal over. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings to openings. Square-headed window and door openings, with remains of multi-pane timber casement windows and timber battened doors, and segmental-headed carriage arches. Hexagonal structure constructed of brick with square-headed openings with timber louvered vents having hipped modern corrugated metal roof over, Timber porch supported on cast-iron posts serves square-headed doorcase with battened timber door to west face. Remains of extensive walled garden, on rectilinear plan, to east, constructed of rubble limestone with sections of brick lining to interior walls. Ruinous glass house to interior having remains of early heating system and related plumbing mechanisms. Complex set back from road to the northwest of Killucan with main entrance gates having dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) to the north. Remains of deerpark enclosure to the southeast.

An extensive collection of outbuildings and ancillary structures associated with Killynan House, now demolished. They are well-built, using limestone rubble, and retain their early character, form and much of their early fabric. The curious hexagonal-shaped structure to the centre of the courtyard, which is probably of mid nineteenth-century date, is an interesting feature with an unknown original purpose. These outbuildings and the associated walled garden help to give an insight into the extensive resources required to maintain a large country house during the nineteenth centuries. The remains of an early heating system to the glass house provide a technical insight into past mechanisms. The complex has a number of good cut limestone entrance gates, a number retaining early wrought-iron gates, which complete the setting and add to this appealing composition. Killynan House was associated with the Pratt and Winter Families in the eighteenth century and was, apparently, permanently leased to the Reynell Family (of nearby Reynella House 115401310) by a Samuel Winter c.1767. The outbuildings occupies (or is close to) the site of an earlier 'castle' at Killynan, indicated on the Down Survey Map (1654-6) and may incorporate fabric of archaeological significance.