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H-plan former workhouse complex, dated 1841, possibly to plan by George Wilkinson, now occupied by Farney Community Development Group. Comprising workhouse, workhouse master's house, attached orphanage and ancillary buildings. Thirteen-bay two-storey main block, with projecting two-bay three-storey double gable-fronted bays. Abutting rectangular-plan building to rear, incorporating derelict store. Detached five-bay two-storey workhouse master's house to south of workhouse with slightly-advanced gable-fronted end bays, facade continued to west by six-bay two-storey orphanage and school annex, built 1851, west end bay being canted forward and having gablet over, and facade ending with slightly projecting gabled end of three-storey block set at right angle. Latter block has multiple-bay side elevation, with gablet over middle bay. Main block has belvedere towards north end, with pyramidal corrugated-asbestos roof and dressed limestone walls. Modern warehouse situated between main block and former master's house. Pitched slate roofs, and refurbished cast-iron rainwater goods, with recent decorative bargeboards to front gables. Random coursed squared limestone walls with plinths and tooled quoins, with moulded string course between floors of front block. Cast-iron single, double and triple-light diamond-paned windows set in timber frames, windows to master's house having chamfered surrounds, having stone sills and tooled stone surrounds, with brick-surrounds to openings of orphanage wing. Louvered shouldered opening to apex of highest front gable, and pointed-arch louvered vents to apexes of double gables of main block. Square-headed door openings now mostly having replacement doors. Tudor-arch doorway to master's house, set in chamfered surround, with double-leaf timber panelled door and flanked by lower windows, all under continuous hood-moulding, and with date 1841 over central doorway. Interior has timber queen-post truss roof. Set within its own grounds.
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