Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Walled Garden
Ballindrum, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Walled Garden Structure
- Date of listing
- 26 March 2004
- Date of construction
- 1650 - 1699
- Address
- Walled Garden, Springhill, Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Ballindrum
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.68595, -6.65308
- Date of survey
- 18 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB09/06/024 H
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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 walled garden (kitchen garden) with random rubble stone, approximately 3 metres high without coping with undulating wall top enclosing an area of 1.12 hectares. Its N E Short boundary forms one side of the farmyard and stretches in a SE direction. It no longer produces vegetables and fruit for the kitchen table and is presently planted with a mix of broadleaf and coniferous trees. Access to it is in the middle of the S W wall.
Historical information
The walled garden may date from the 17th cent. The stonework of the walls is similar to that of the Barn. It is unlikely to be later than the mid 18th cent. The present planting in it was carried out in 1970.
Historic Gdns No. L/021
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46.
2. Notes, Historic Gdns, file L/021, E.H.S. Hill Street, Belfast.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
The wall garden at Springhill is a good example of a generous kitchen garden attached to a substantial countryhouse. It has a fine and substantial rubble stone enclosing wall which must date from the mid 18th cent. if not late 17th cent.
Nearby in the register
- The Barn at SpringhillFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- FarmyardFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- Costume HouseGallery/ Museumunder 1 mi
- Springhill HouseCountry Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.