walled garden — Mitchelstown

Square-plan former walled garden, built c. 1800, with outbuildings. Currently in use as pitch and putt course, private house and holiday accommodation. Coursed rubble limestone walls faced internally with red brick in Flemish and English Garden Wall bond and having numbered metal plaques. Entrances to east, west and south, comprising square-profile cut limestone piers and double-leaf cast-iron gates, with brick voussoirs. Former outbuildings to south-west, comprising three five-bay single-storey buildings having single-pitched artificial slate roofs, uPVC rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks, coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with brick surrounds, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and recent timber doors. Four-bay single-storey former outbuilding with attic accommodation to south, having single-pitched artificial slate roof, uPVC rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks and recent gabled dormer windows with timber bargeboards and four-over-four pane windows, coursed rubble limestone walls to ground floor and rendered walls to first floor, square-headed six-over-six pane windows to ground floor, and square-headed door openings having recent timber doors. Eight-bay single-storey lean-to outbuilding to south-east, having slate roof with brick soffit, coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with brick surrounds, and four elliptical carriage entrances with brick voussoirs. Five-bay single-storey lean-to outbuilding to east, having single-pitched artificial slate roof, uPVC rainwater goods, random rubble limestone walls and square-headed window and door openings with brick surrounds. Two-storey house to north, with five-bay first floor and recent hipped-roof extension to front, pitched artificial slate main roof, rendered chimneystacks, rendered walls and replacement uPVC fittings to openings. Pitch and putt course to south.