Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Costume House
Ballindrum, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Gallery/ Museum
- Date of listing
- 26 March 2004
- Date of construction
- 1760 - 1779
- Address
- Costume House, Springhill, Springhill Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Ballindrum
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.68609, -6.65542
- Date of survey
- 17 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB09/06/024 I
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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 4 bay long ½ storey building, gabled and slated.
The S E elevation of the costume house from left has a single door with fanlight, 3 no. 4 pane double hung sliding sash windows. Walls harled and whitewashed, ½ round metal gutter, single downpipe, natural slated roof, gabled at each end. The NE gable has a 12 pane window at attic level, wall harled and whitewashed, slates overhang stonework. At this gable is a gateway with 2 large square stone gate piers rebated on inside for gate. Pyramidal caps, white washed on 2 sides. The NE elevation has one 6 pane fixed window. Elevation is partly obscured by vegetation. Roof as before.
The costume house, with NW wing of forecourt, toilet block form 3 sides of enclosed garden, mostly lawn, with path from house to farmyard traversing it. It is neatly planted with small trees. The fourth or NW side is bound by a rubble stone wall. Within the enclosed garden the remains of a cast iron water pump.
Historical information
The costume house, formerly an outbuilding is probably of mid 18th cent.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46.
Secondary Sources
1. Mid Ulster Houses N.T. p. 28
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A former stone built mid 18th cent. outbuilding part of the farm estate structures erected for the Springhill Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Springhill HouseCountry Houseunder 1 mi
- The Barn at SpringhillFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- Tractor shedOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
- Coachhouse, SpringhillEstate Related Structuresunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.