’Barn’,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Small single storey brick and stone barn on the south side of Quarry Road built early in the twentieth century. The north front face is constructed in a red ‘common’ facing brick and has two door openings to right hand side, both of which have timber sheeted stable doors. The east gable is built in a muiti-coloured sandstone and has no openings. The rear south face has two almost square window openings each with a modern timber frames without astragals. Each opening has brick dressings to the reveals, concrete heads and no cills. The west gable is constructed in stone as before. The roof has bangor blue slate and PVC rw goods. To the west a corrugated iron barn was added at some later date. This structure has the same overall shape as the original barn and is approximately the same size.

Historical information

This building is shown on the 1921 OS map, but does not does not appear on the 1901 map, thus dating the structure to some time between these years.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS maps 1901.
2 PRONI OS maps 1921.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This ‘barn’ was constructed early in the twentieth century and recently refurbished, with a new bangor blue slate roof being added in the process along with PVC rw goods. It is a neat and tidy structure but has little historic or architectural significance.