Curraghmore

Farmyard complex, c.1755, including:(i) Detached eleven-bay three-storey rubble stone outbuilding comprising single-bay three-storey gabled projecting bay with six-bay three-storey flanking lateral range to right (east), four-bay three-storey flanking lateral range to left (west) having single-bay three-storey side elevation, and four-bay single-storey return to north. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to central block; hipped to end bays) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins to corners to central block. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and 2/2 timber sash windows. Lunette window opening to gable to central block with cut-stone sill, and red brick dressings. Now blocked-up. Square-headed door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled and glazed timber panelled doors (some having overlights).(ii) Detached twenty-one-bay single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuilding on a Palladian-style plan comprising three-bay two-storey gable-fronted central block with six-bay single-storey recessed flanking lateral wings having three-bay single-storey advanced end bays. Pitched slate roof (gabled to projecting bay; pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Random rubble limestone walls with cast-iron tie plates to top floor. Square-headed window openings (round-headed to top floor side (west) elevation) with cut-stone sills, cut-stone lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to first floor projecting bay approached by flight of steps with cut-stone surround, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Round-headed door openings to projecting bay with cut-stone ‘sills’, cut-stone surrounds, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Paired camber-headed door openings to return with cut-stone surrounds, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.(iii) Detached fifteen-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with three-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront. Pitched slate roof (gabled to breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone chimney stacks having stringcourses and moulded detailing, cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins to corners, round-headed full-height recess to centre of breakfront and to each wing having cut-stone voussoirs to breakfront, red brick ‘voussoirs’ to wings, and cut-stone surround to gable forming pediment with wrought iron weathervane to apex. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and red brick dressings. 3/6 timber sash windows with some louvered timber panel fittings. Camber-headed door openings to recesses with cut-stone surrounds (having red brick dressings over to breakfront), and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Round-headed door openings to first floor to recesses to wings with cut-stone ‘sills’, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors.(iv) Detached twenty-two-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with segmental-headed carriageway to left ground floor, and three-bay single-storey parallel range to north-west. Pitched slate roof (hipped to parallel range) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having cut-stone capping, cut-stone coping to gables having cut-stone gabled bellcote to apex to north (with round-headed aperture containing cast-iron bell having cut-stone coping over), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins to corners, and round-headed full-height recess to side elevation to north having red brick internal surround, and red brick ‘voussoirs’. Camber-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with cut-stone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds. 4/4 and 6/6 timber sash windows with some retaining remains of 4/8 timber sash windows, and some having remains of louvered timber panel fittings. Camber-headed door openings with cut-stone surrounds (some block-and-start), and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Round-headed door openings to first floor with cut-stone ‘sills’, block-and-start surrounds, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Segmental-headed carriageway with cut-stone surround having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Round-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to parallel range with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds and ‘voussoirs’, 6/6 timber sash windows, and louvered timber overpanels.(v) Detached seventeen-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone chimney stacks, cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, and cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. 2/4 and 4/4 timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with cut-stone surrounds, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Square-headed carriageway with cut-stone surround, cut-stone lintel, and timber double doors.(vi) Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone farm manager’s house retaining original aspect with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to centre ground floor, and three-bay single-storey lateral wing to left (south). Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack on rendered base having stringcourse and profiled coping, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Pitched (gabled) cut-stone roof to porch. Random rubble stone walls with tooled cut-stone quoins to corners (chamfered to corner to north-west), and round-headed full-height recess to side elevation to north having red brick ‘voussoirs’. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and 4/4 timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, and overlight. Camber-headed window openings to wing with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and 4/4 timber sash windows.(vii) Gateway to farmyard complex comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with moulded cornices, cut-stone capping, wrought iron double gates, and square-headed flanking pedestrian gateways with wrought iron double gates, and ‘battlemented’ parapets over.