Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB09/06/024 I

Address :
Costume House Springhill Springhill Road Moneymore Magherafelt Co Londonderry

Townland:
Ballindrum

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
26/03/2004 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Gallery/ Museum

Former Use
Outbuildings

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
109/10

IG Ref:
H8677 8283

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Owner Category

Heritage

Exterior Description And Setting

A 4 bay long ½ storey building, gabled and slated. The S E elevation of the costume house from left has a single door with fanlight, 3 no. 4 pane double hung sliding sash windows. Walls harled and whitewashed, ½ round metal gutter, single downpipe, natural slated roof, gabled at each end. The NE gable has a 12 pane window at attic level, wall harled and whitewashed, slates overhang stonework. At this gable is a gateway with 2 large square stone gate piers rebated on inside for gate. Pyramidal caps, white washed on 2 sides. The NE elevation has one 6 pane fixed window. Elevation is partly obscured by vegetation. Roof as before. The costume house, with NW wing of forecourt, toilet block form 3 sides of enclosed garden, mostly lawn, with path from house to farmyard traversing it. It is neatly planted with small trees. The fourth or NW side is bound by a rubble stone wall. Within the enclosed garden the remains of a cast iron water pump.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The costume house, formerly an outbuilding is probably of mid 18th cent. References Primary Sources 1. O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry sh. 46. Secondary Sources 1. Mid Ulster Houses N.T. p. 28

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A former stone built mid 18th cent. outbuilding part of the farm estate structures erected for the Springhill Estate.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 November 2000