Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/11/002 B

Address :
Drenagh Estate Coach house 17 Dowland Road Fruithill Limavady Co Londonderry BT49 0HP

Townland:
Fruithill

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
13/03/2002 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Estate Related Structures

Former Use
Estate Related Structures

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
29/2SE

IG Ref:
C6890 2363

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Two storey pink sandstone ashlar faced coach house and out-houses arranged in three ranges of approximately equal length to form a courtyard the 4th side of which is enclosed with a wall with gate and piers centrally placed. The centre symmetrical coach house block has a shallow neck front with pediment and six elliptical gateways and above each a square louvred opening ventilating the first floor. The flanking ranges seven bays long, have three round headed doorways with fanlights and the ground floor spaces lit by 12 pane Georgian sash windows. The upper floor is ventilated by 7 No. louvred openings. Each range is slated and gabled and abuts the next only at one corner. The north east gable of the south east range has a large bellcote. From the coach house there is a two storey return forming a dwelling house which is red brick faced on the north west facade and ½ of the north east gable, the remainder between sandstone. External steps give access to the floor over the coach house. The entire range is sited north east of the main house and beyond the land steward’s former dwelling. Its main axis is not just quite in line of the gateway leading into the courtyard of the house. There is an antique petrol pump near the entrance of the courtyard.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This range of buildings is contemporary with the house and attributed to Charles Lanyon i.e. c1840s. The house appears to have been added later It has a date in plaster of 1908 on the gable and a second date below indicating renovation in 1986. References: Guide to Irish Country Houses M Bench-Jones UAHS Buildings of North Derry by Girvan

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form K. Group value

Historic Interest

V. Authorship X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Fine imposing symmetrically arranged outhouses enclosing a square coach yard in a severe Georgian classical style. The only blemish in the symmetry viewed from the courtyard is the large bellcote on the south east range.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 November 1997