Farmyard

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Set to the southeast of the Crevenagh House is an enclosed farmyard with a two-storey multi-bay range of outbuildings running on a north-south axis, enclosed to the north and south by a tall stone wall. Hipped corrugated iron roofs (part natural slate) to both ranges with rough-cast lime rendered walls and square-headed window and door openings. Some timber sash windows and timber casement windows remain, with vertically-sheeted timber half-doors predominating. A further tall rubble stone wall extends to the east with a segmental arch opening formed in brick leading into a walled garden.

Roof Corrugated iron/ natural slate
Walling Rough-cast lime render
Windows Timber sash
RWG u-PVC

Historical information

The property first appears captioned ‘Creevenagh House’ on the second edition OS Map (1854). A ‘Gate Lodge’ and ‘Summer House’ are also captioned and outbuildings and a formal garden are shown.

Griffith’s Valuation lists the property as a house, offices, gate lodge and land, being occupied by the Hon Andrew Stewart and leased from Thomas Auchinleck and value it at £60.0.0. In the Valuation Revisions the occupiers are the Auchinleck family throughout and the value rises to £78.10.0, then £80.10.0 in 1871 and £84.10.0 in 1883 when a new addition is built.

Rowan comments; “Built by the Auchinleck family, presumably about 1810, long, low, and two-storeyed, rendered, with stone quoins and wide overhanging eaves. Three-bay, though given unusual scale by the use of tri-partite windows throughout, with a polygonal single-storey central porch. The interior is unusually handsome: a complete neo-classical villa with a double return staircase symmetrically planned on the axis of the hall, fine Grecian plasterwork, and a heavily architectural character to the doors and fireplaces of the main rooms. The hall floor is paved in Italian marble – black, white and terracotta-red with scenes of the seven ages of man.” (p.449)

Dean mentions that the most famous son of the Auchinleck family was to be Field Marshall Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck. (p.140)

Primary Sources:

PRONI OS/6/6/35/1-3 – Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1906)
PRONI VAL/2/B/6/28 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
PRONI VAL/1/A/6/35 – Townland Valuation Map
PRONI VAL/2/B/626/B – Townland Valuation Records (1828-40)
PRONI VAL/12/D/6/41/36/A-L – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)

Secondary Sources:

Dean, J A K ‘The Gate Lodges of Ulster – A Gazetteer’, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994
Rowan, A ‘The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster’, Penguin Books, 1979

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

An enclosed farmyard with two-storey multi-bay ranges of outbuildings of early nineteenth-century originassociated with Crevenagh House (HB11/15/003A). Substantial, with original detail surviving, they form a notable group and an important part of the property.