What is recorded here
Outbuilding in Ballyvorneen has such a grand carriage arch that a cartload of manure ought to arrive with a letter of introduction. The stonework reportedly suits the gates better than the main house, the shed has married into the family and is already looking down on them.
Detached seven-bay two-storey range of outbuildings, built c. 1800, with central gabled breakfront, four-bay single-storey block adjoining east elevation at right angle and single-storey lean-to to west elevation. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Corrugated-iron single-pitched roof to lean-to and pitched artificial slate roof to east block. Dressed limestone walls. Rendered walls to lean-to and east block. Square-headed openings with cut stone sills, dressed stone voussoirs and leaded windows, bipartite and round-headed to first floor. Square-headed openings with timber battened half-doors and dressed stone voussoirs. Elliptical-arched carriage arch to central bay with dressed stone voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Random rubble boundary walls, rusticated stone piers with cut stone caps and timber gate.
This range of outbuildings exhibit a good example of nineteenth-century stone construction, with elegant elements such as the central breakfront, dressed voussoirs and regular openings. The quality of workmanship is more in keeping with the boundary walls and gates rather than the country house on the same grounds.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902317
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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