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Ballyhighland

farmyard complex
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Ballyhighland
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Farmyard complex, dated 1834, on a quadrangular plan including (east): Attached three- or five-bay double-height coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; five-bay two-storey courtyard (west) elevation centred on three-bay two-storey lean-to breakfront. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (west), remains of pressed or rolled lead-covered ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone battered walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; channelled granite ashlar surface finish on cut-granite chamfered plinth (breakfront) with cut-granite flush quoins to corners supporting cut-granite pediment. Round-headed central opening (breakfront) with cut-granite archivolt framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel. Elliptical-headed central opening to courtyard (west) elevation with schist-inserted cut-granite voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystone. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing remains of timber fittings having lattice glazing bars. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland.

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