Lismore Castle

Detached twenty-three-bay single- and two-storey stable building, c.1850, on a U-shaped plan retaining original aspect comprising eleven-bay two-storey central block with eight-bay single-storey perpendicular wing to south-east and four-bay single-storey perpendicular wing to south-west having series of square-headed carriageways. Pitched slate roof to central block (gabled canopies to some openings to first floor on consoles), hipped slate roof to wing to south-east and pitched slate roof to wing to south-west with clay ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with squared tooled limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings to central block and to wing to south-east with squared tooled limestone surrounds and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors and half-doors. Square-headed window openings to first floor with squared tooled limestone surrounds and louvered timber panelled fittings. One square-headed window opening to ground floor with saw tooth-profiled flat iron sill, squared tooled limestone surround and 8/8 timber sash window. Series of three square-headed carriageways to wing to south-west with squared tooled limestone surrounds and timber boarded sliding doors. Interior with red brick paved floors in diamond pattern and tongue-and-groove timber panelled stalls. Set back from road in grounds shared with Lismore Castle about a courtyard with trough to courtyard on a circular plan comprising unpainted rendered parapet over rubble stone construction with cast-iron lamp standard to coping.

A well-composed substantial outbuilding of formal appearance that forms an important component of the Lismore Castle estate. The construction of the building is particularly noteworthy, with tooled limestone dressings attesting to high quality stone masonry. Although now disused and slightly dilapidated, the original form and massing remains intact, together with important salient features and materials, including stalls and related fittings to the interior.