Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Cart Shed and Dovecote at Springhill
Ballindrum, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Dove/ Pigeon House
- Date of listing
- 1 October 1975
- Date of construction
- 1760 - 1779
- Address
- Cart Shed and Dovecote at Springhill, Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7NQ
- Townland
- Ballindrum
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.68541, -6.65687
- Date of survey
- 17 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB09/06/024 E
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 5 bay long 1½ storey outbuildings with 2 stage circular tower at one gable stone built and slated.
The N E elevation encloses the grassed court beyond the coachhouse (see HB09/06/024D). 5 bays long with from the right 2 segmented arch openings without doors giving access to cart shed. A single sheeted square headed door with shuttered small vertical windows on each side. At 1st floor under eaves a single double door, sheeted, roughly centred on long wall. Wall stone built and whitewashed, ½ round gutter, single downpipe, natural slated roof, gabled at one end hipped at other. S E gable has a circular tower appended, built of random rubble stone, whitewashed, no external door but 2 narrow slits at top of each stage. Access to tower from within cart shed. Tower has conical shaped slated roof with weather vane on top. The N W gable and the long wall which forms the boundary to Springhill Road, are windowless and built of random rubble stonework. Linking rubble walls from coach house enclose the grass court. Random rubble walls continue on each side of cart shed along the Springhill Road to form estate boundary.
Historical information
The cart shed and pigeon tower probably dates from the mid or later 18th cent, during the time of Col. William Conynghan. The estate became the property of the National Trust in 1957 (see HB09/06/024B).
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46
2. Mid Ulster Houses N.T. p. 28.
3. U.J.A. 3rd series Vol. 1 (1938) p. 81-83
4. Notes, 1st Survey, E.H.S. Hill Street, Belfast
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
E. Spatial Organisation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
A good example of 18th cent. cart shed and pigeon tower or dovecoat, part of country estate outbuildings, well preserved and part of a carefully laid out group of buildings.
General comments
This building was recorded under HB09/06/028 in the first survey.
Nearby in the register
- Coachhouse, SpringhillEstate Related Structuresunder 1 mi
- Tractor shedOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Small LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Springhill HouseCountry Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.