Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Garden house
Drumrainy, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Estate Related Structures
- Date of listing
- 6 October 1985
- Date of construction
- 1740 - 1759
- Address
- Garden house, Knockballymore, Drumrainy, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 6NA
- Townland
- Drumrainy
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.19244, -7.26052
- HB reference
- HB12/01/001 C
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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 ruinous single storey / single room octagonal garden house situated on the N bank of the River Finn in the orchard of Knockballymore House (HB12/01/001A). Formerly with annexe to N (now gone).
Roof was natural slate (octagonal in form) but has now collapsed. Walls are rough-coursed rubble stone. All openings have brick dressings and cills are stone.
N elevation contains a t+g sheeted door. Facing NE and SE respectively are two fixed pane Gothic-headed windows with decorative geometric glazing. All other elevations are blank.
Historical information
Shown on the 1834 OS 6” map and subsequent editions. Probably erected shortly after the erection of the main house by the Earl of Erne for his agent about 1740.
Primary sources:
1. OS maps, 1st edition, 1834, Co Fermanagh 40.
Secondary sources:
1. A. Rowan, ‘North West Ulster’ (Harmondsworth 1979), p.338.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
An unusual eighteenth century garden house pleasantly situated on the N bank of the River Finn in the orchard of Knockballymore House Although ruinous, the building retains a degree of character, and possesses interesting window glazing. It has group value wih the listed Knockballymore House (HB12/01/001A) and its Stableyard (HB12/01/001B).
General comments
This record was previously numbered HB12/01/003.
Nearby in the register
- Knockballymore BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- KnockballymoreHouseunder 1 mi
- StableyardFarm Buildingsunder 1 mi
- OakfieldHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.