Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gamekeeper’s House (The Pheasantry)
Fruithill, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 13 March 2002
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Gamekeeper’s House (The Pheasantry), Drenagh Demesne, 66 Broad Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OQH
- Townland
- Fruithill
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.05585, -6.90955
- Date of survey
- 12 November 1997
- HB reference
- HB02/11/002 I
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two storey polychrome brick house three bays wide with gables, two chimneys on inside walls steep pitched natural slated roof with decorative wavy fascia and barge boards. Walls rise from a chamfered sandstone plinth, biscuit coloured bricks to quoins, window and door trim, brick string course just below first floor cills. Cills in sandstone. The rear elevation does not have decorative brickwork. Windows are sliding sash, four panes wide with 16 panes to ground floor and 12 to first floor. On the gable facing driveway is a date stone of 1865 and incorporating coat of arms. On the other gable is a small rectangular window lighting the attic. The chimneys each with two flues have offsets and moulded coping.
Historical information
Though the house is now occupied by a tenant it was formerly designated the gamekeeper’s house and built in 1865.
Reference:
Mr Dickson (Appletree House HB02/11/005)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A good mid Victorian house of decorative interest well designed to present a good exterior within the demesne and an example of the self sufficiency of life on a landed estate.
Nearby in the register
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- Drumachose Old ChurchGraveyardunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden,Walled Garden Structureunder 1 mi
- Moon Garden,Garden Featuresunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.