Rockstown — BALLYMACLOUGHLIN

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey lean-to projecting breakfront. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on roughcast cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing remains of timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings to "cheeks" with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of timber fittings. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to some door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber surrounds to some window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in unkempt grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".