Dairy Building

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A one and a half storey dairy building gabled with tiled roof. There is a gabled dormer in long east wall. There are two chimneys, one in the north gable. The south gable has exposed timber work and plaster has fallen off and exposed red brick quoins in the upper part of the wall, possibly indicating that the building had been increased in height at the time the main house was built. There are two single doors in the south side, one accessing dwelling accommodation, the other the dairy. There is a window adjacent to the house door. There are double light windows in the dormer and similar in the south gable. A single storey shed abuts at right angles to the dairy building.

The dairy building is sited to the north of the main house set well back from the Beragh Hill Road and there is a small courtyard formed in front of it. The yard is separated from the house grounds by a wall.

Historical information

The building was probably converted from an early building of the second half of the 19th century. There is not a building shown in this location on the 1830 OSS. It is likely that the structure was raised to a one and a half storey when the main house was built c1890s. Architect probably Eccles Buchanan.

References:

Primary Sources:

OS Map 1st Edition 1830 Co Londonderry sheet 13
OS Map 2nd Edition 1848-52 Co Londonderry sheet 13
OS Map 1904-5 Revision Co Londonderry sheet 14A
Griffiths Valuation 1858
Present, owner (1999)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

V. Authorship
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Though suffering from neglect the building retains substantial original character. Its context and group value increase its historical and architectural importance.