The Carriage Hostel — CASTLEBANE (DUNFANAGHY)

Detached five-bay three-storey former corn mill, built c. 1789, having remains of metal waterwheel attached to the west gable end, and with single-storey block to the rear (south) at the west corner, possibly a former corn kiln. Single-storey elevation addressing road to the south. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched corrugated-cement sheeted roof having projecting cut stone eaves course; roof now partially collapsing. Coursed and roughly squared rubble sandstone walls with flush roughly dressed block-and-start quoins to the corners; roughcast rendered walls to the east and south elevations. Square-headed window openings having stone sills, roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs, and remains of eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; some window openings to the north elevation now blocked with rubble stone masonry and window openings to the south elevation now boarded. Square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural country side to the south-west of Dunfanaghy, overlooking New Lake to the north. Rubble stone walls surrounding waterwheel pit to the west elevation; rubble stone retaining walls to the north and south of site. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having no roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and rubble stone voussoirs. Former millrace to the west running south-to-north. Single-storey outbuilding to the south having mono-pitched corrugated metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends (north and south, rubble stone walls. Series of structures to south-west including modern and conserved buildings. Former railway platform with mono-pitched roof supported on cast-iron columns; restored railway carriage, now in use as a hostel, to former railway platform. Large modern guest house building etc. to the south-west.