Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Greystone Hall Special School
Rathbrady More, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- School
- Date of construction
- 1940 - 1959
- Address
- Greystone Hall Special School, 2 Ballyquin Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry BT49 9ET
- Townland
- Rathbrady More
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.04183, -6.94743
- Date of survey
- 28 January 1998
- HB reference
- HB02/15/007
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
National Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1922 "Ireland - northern section." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Building marked on Ordnance Survey map as: Greystone Hall special School.
Two storey school in two separate wings with adjacent headmaster’s house. Wing nearest Greystone Road T shaped, and consisting of red brick gables, rendered first floor and yellow rustic brick ground floor. Second block perpendicular, in red brick, with flat roof and more rigorous treatment of fenestration. Headmaster’s house, a composition of red brick and render planes with a tall stair window. Around the grounds are plinths and brick arches supporting finials and other carved architectural features presumably from the former Greystone Hall.
Historical information
Built in the mid 1950s on the site of the former Greystone Hall. The hall is mentioned in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1833-35, as ‘a large brick house, commenced in 1831 and finished in 1833’. Architect of the school was N E Campbell. There have been some small renovations and extensions to the buildings.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
An example of post-war school design but does not merit listing.
Nearby in the register
- Limavady Grammar SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Reformed Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 29 Roe Mill RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 96 Irish Green StreetHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.