Spring Park — COOLAGHERTY

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built or rebuilt c. 1760, and possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (northeast and southwest) and having a moulded limestone eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone quoins to the corners of the main façade (southeast) at ground and first floor level and with rendered string course over basement. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and replacement windows. Small window openings at basement level to front elevation (southeast) and minimal fenestration to rear elevation (northwest). Square-headed door opening with carved limestone pedimented block-and-start surround having moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and Gibbsian keystone, and with replacement door. Doorway reached up flight of cut stone steps, flanked to either side by walls having cut stone coping over. Roughly coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to northeast of site having segmental-headed door opening with cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Granard. Complex of single-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the rear (northwest); comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding/former stables to the northeast of yard having pitched slate roof, roughly coursed rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Cut stone sills to window opening. Altered single-storey outbuildings to the northeast of yard having rubble stone walls, corrugated-asbestos and corrugated-metal roofs and square-headed openings. Main entrance to house to the southeast comprising a pair of roughly coursed limestone piers (on square-plan) having dressed capstones. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of roughly coursed boundary walls.