
What is recorded here
Sunfield House in Rathsallagh gave its horses a stable with a grand central arch, fancy gable and a weathervane on top. Bring a donkey through that entrance and he’d insist you announce him.
Farmyard complex, c.1875, including: Detached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront. Pitched fibre-cement slate roofs; pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gable (breakfront) with wrought iron weathervane to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Elliptical-headed central carriageway with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs framing tongue-and-groove timber boarded double doors. Square-headed central window opening with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash window having part exposed sash box. Square-headed door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (half-attic). Set in grounds shared with Sunfield House.
A farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Sunfield House estate.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13402314
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