Ballylinch Stud Farm — BALLYLINCH DEMESNE

Stud farm, established 1915, including: (i) Detached thirteen-bay single-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style range with half-dormer attic on a symmetrical plan accommodating nine estate workers' houses with single-bay full-height gabled projecting central bay having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking porches, and two-bay full-height gabled projecting end bay pavilions having single-bay full-height gabled re-entrant bays continuing into single-bay single-storey projecting infill corner porches. Hipped roof (gabled to central bay continuing into lean-to to porches; gabled to half-dormer attic windows; gabled to end bay pavilions) with clay tile laid in diagonal courses, clay ridge tiles, rock-faced concrete block chimney stacks having profiled cornices, flat concrete roofs to some half-dormer attic windows, timber bargeboards to gable to central bay having wrought iron weathervane to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rock-faced concrete block walls with moulded stringcourse, courses of 'ashlar' concrete block to end pavilions, and carved cut-limestone heraldic date stone/plaque to gable to central bay. Square-headed window openings (most in bipartite, tripartite or quadripartite arrangement) with concrete sills, concrete lintels, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with concrete lintels, and glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors (some having sidelights). Set back from road with landscaped forecourt having iron railings to perimeter incorporating cast-iron colonette piers, and iron gates. (ii) Detached thirteen-bay single-storey stable building on a U-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey returns to south-west. Hipped roof on a U-shaped plan with clay tile laid in diagonal courses, clay ridge tiles, terracotta vents to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Concrete block walls with cast-iron grills to plinth, and rock-faced concrete block quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings with rock-faced concrete block block-and-start surrounds, and timber boarded half-doors (incorporating wrought iron overpanels) having overlights. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with concrete sills, concrete lintels, and timber casement windows. (iii) Gateway possibly incorporating fabric of earlier gateway, pre-1840, on site comprising pair of cut-limestone piers with cut-limestone pyramidal capping, rubble limestone curved (serpentine) flanking walls having cut-limestone coping, cut-limestone outer piers with cut-limestone capping, and random rubble limestone boundary wall having cut-limestone coping.