Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/05/010 B

Address :
Grotto Hall Former Stables Glenedra Road Fincarn Feeny Co Londonderry

Townland:
Fincarn

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Store

Former Use
Stables

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
62/4

IG Ref:
C6360 0475

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Owner Category

Church - RC

Exterior Description And Setting

A single storey long and narrow rectangular low building of 4 bays, gabled. Former stable, now used as a store with 3 single door openings and 2 windows on the NW side and 1 single door and small window on the other. In the SW gable a tall pointed window with Y tracery possibly a remnant of the former church. Walls plastered and painted and roof slated.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building is not shown on the O.S. map 1830 nor on the 1856 Rev. It is shown on the 1905 revision. Built as stables probably after erection of church. Now used as a store and recently renamed and called the Grotto Hall being adjacent to the Grotto.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A low former stables with little architectural pretension but of interest to the local people and having a local social significance.

General Comments

Date of Survey

14 July 2000