farmyard complex — Mitchelstown

Farmyard complex, built c. 1800, main element being range to west side comprising five-bay two-storey stable block flanked by five-bay single-storey blocks and in turn by three-bay two-storey former steward's house to south and partly ruined multiple-bay two-storey block to north. Five-bay single-storey block attached to house at south end of rear elevation. Recnet extensions to fornt and rear of block to north of house. Slate roofs, hipped to two-storey blocks and to block to east of house, house and stable block having rendered chimneystacks, and north-most single-storey block having brick chimneystack. Snecked roughly dressed limestone walls. Camber-headed openings throughout, with painted brick block-and-start surrounds having replacement uPVC windows with limestone sills. Recent glazed timber door to house, and timber battened doors to outbuildings. Integral segmental carriage arch to south end of stable block, having cast-iron double-leaf gates to west side. Garden to front of house, with rubble limestone boundary wall and square-profile limestone and brick piers with cut limestone caps and single-leaf wrought-iron gate with cut limestone steps. Gateway to yard has square-profile cut limestone piers with plinths, imposts and caps, with decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard. Well and cast-iron pump to yard.