Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Stables at Boomhall
Ballynashallog, Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Stables
- Date of listing
- 21 October 1997
- Date of construction
- 1760 - 1779
- Address
- Stables at Boomhall, Culmore Road, Londonderry, BT48 8JE
- Townland
- Ballynashallog
- Council
- Derry City and Strabane
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.02215, -7.29820
- Date of survey
- 18 October 1999
- HB reference
- HB01/25/004 B
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1757 "Carte Reduite des Isles Britanniques Troisieme Feuille Partie Meridionale de l'Ecosse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 2 storey 5 bay wide stone built partially derelict stable block with partly collapsed slated roof symmetrically composed in Georgian style and enclosing a courtyard on 4 sides.
The S and entrance façade has central segmental arched gateway, sandstone trimmed in short and long voissoirs, on each side 2 vertical window openings, some built up, at first floor level 900mm diam. oculii over openings below, each with moulded architrave. First floor continues over gateway. The courtyard is square with 2 storey buildings enclosing it. Window and doors occur spasmodically and there was, in the past, living accommodation within the block and several stairways. First floor constructed of timber. Much of the roof timbers are collapsed. The exterior wall of the stable looked onto a wall garden no longer extant except for arched gateway access. There are no other openings in this wall. The east wall has a segmented gateway with several window openings occurring randomly.
The stable block is sited to the NW of the main house and a short distance from it. What would have been the back avenue passes it. To the rear and to the north of the stable block is another walled garden in an unkempt state.
The walls are built of random rubble schist with sandstone and brick trim.
Historical information
The stable block is shown on the 1832 O.S. map and is most likely contemporary with the house of 1779 and may have been designed by M. Priestly. The wall garden to the west is not shown but is shown on the later map of 1856 and may, therefore have been erected by the Blairs (see HB01/25/004A). The stable block is tenanted by a Patrick McCloskey who keeps horses stabled there as well as grazing them on the adjacent fields. The block is now part of the complex owned by the Derry District Council (see HB01/25/004A).
References
Primary Sources:
1. UAFP O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry No. 13
2. UAFP O.S. Map 1st Rev. 1856 Londonderry No.13
Secondary Sources:
1. UAHS Buildings of City of Derry p.54
2. A Malley – History of Boomhall, Derry. (unpublished short article).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
E. Spatial Organisation
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
V. Authorship
Evaluation
A good example of a stable courtyard with fine long and short ashlar sandstone arched entrances.Though in a ruinous condition the buildings are largely unaltered and are not beyond restoration.
Nearby in the register
- BoomhallHouseunder 1 mi
- DunruadhHouseunder 1 mi
- St Peter’s C of I ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 25 Talbot ParkHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.