Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB09/05/001 B

Address :
Outbuildings at Killymoon Castle 60 Castle Road Cookstown BT80 8TN

Townland:
Killymoon Demesne

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Survey 2:
A

Date of Listing:
01/10/1975 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Farm Buildings

Former Use
Farm Buildings

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
124/12

IG Ref:
H8233 7656

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A two-storey rubble sandstone, gabled block, with a projecting hipped-roofed ashlar sandstone three-bay centrepiece, and a lower single storey block set at right angles at one end. It stands within the demesne of Killymoon Castle facing the main driveway to the castle but set back with a walled yard in front. The main entrance front faces east. The east elevation is a tripartite composition of two end wings to a taller centrepiece. The south wing has walling mainly of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with roughly squared quoins to the left hand, a moulded sandstone cornice, ashlar sandstone block surrounds to doorways and brick surrounds to windows. Roofing is of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, contained within a raised gable coping of sandstone. Rainwater goods are missing to this wing. There are two doorways, each comprising a rectangular timber boarded door surmounted by a four-pane rectangular fanlight set in a Gibbsian surround, including triple keystones, surmounted by a semi-circular sandstone relieving arch. There is a centre window on the ground floor, comprising rectangular timber vertically hung sliding sashes, 3 over 6, without horns, set in brick side reveals with sandstone lintel and cill. Above each doorway is a similar window opening but unglazed. The north wing is similar to the south but has rainwater goods of cast iron. The centrepiece has walling of ashlar sandstone with a deeply moulded cornice. The roof is slated as previous. There are three semi-circular arched openings each containing timber boarded double doors, the two outer openings also filled by a ventilated timber tympanum. The side walls of this centrepiece block are of rubble sandstone with a notched red brick cornice, beyond the short returns of the ashlar facing and moulded cornice of the front. The south elevation is comprised of the tall gable of the south wing. Walling is of roughly coursed sandstone rubble, with short returns of moulded sandstone cornices of the front and rear elevations appearing at each side. There is sandstone coping to the gable which rises to a bellcote whose segmental arched opening contains a bell. The base of the bellcote has a cleft face to accommodate the bell-ringing chain hanging down from above. In the ground floor is a semi-circular arched opening with block surrounds containing a radially glazed lunette above rubble stonework, which looks like a former doorway now closed up. High up in the gable is a circular clock face with moulded sandstone surround and keystone. The west or rear elevation is of similar overall form to the front except that the hipped-roofed centrepiece does not project forward. Walling overall is of sandstone rubble with notched brick cornicing. Roofs are slated as previous except that the south wing has its lower courses deeper spaced than elsewhere. Windows are not so regularly spaced as on the entrance front due to what are presumably later insertions in the north wing. The south wing has two rectangular first floor window unglazed openings with Gibbsian surrounds in sandstone. There is also one window in the ground floor, segmental arched, containing a window of modern casement and top-hung vent type. The north wing has two similar sets of Gibbsian surrounds to the first floor, along with two smaller rectangular openings containing timber louvres. There are also two wide brick dressed openings to the ground floor, one now blocked, and one partially filled by a rectangular small paned window. The centrepiece has a central first floor doorway containing a timber boarded door surmounted by a semi-circular relieving arch in brick, with small rectangular windows to each side of it and three more in the attic storey above it, mostly containing small-paned casements. The north gable of the north wing is of similar walling to the south. It contains a louvred attic window and a closed up first floor window which has brick block surrounds. Projecting forward at the right hand extremity of this gable is a now ruinous rubble stone wall of a single storey enclosure or building in the angle between the north wing and the adjacent single-storey block at right angles to it. The now-exposed west end of the single-storey block is of rubble stonework in very poor condition. It has an attic window containing later plate glass, and a ground floor doorway containing a roughly constructed timber boarded door set below a rough wooden lintel with a segmental brickwork relieving arch above. The north side of the single-storey block is of rubble stonework on a slightly projecting plinth. The roof is slated, but in poor condition, and is broken by a red brick chimney also in poor condition. At the right hand extremity is a semi-circular arched opening leading into an open lobby which contains doorways to the side and straight ahead into the front yard. There are two small circular openings either side of the chimney breast, with red brick surrounds. The east gable of the single-storey block is of rubble stonework with projecting plinth, shaped sandstone kneelers to each gable, and sandstone gable copings. There is a rectangular attic window containing later plate glass. The south elevation of this block contains three elliptically arched openings set within a slightly projecting centrepiece of ashlar sandstone, flanked each side by end bays which each contain a window and a rectangular doorway. The end bays are of regular coursed rubble. Roofing overall is slated. Rainwater goods are of cast iron. The elliptical archways contain pairs of arched timber doors with large plain ironwork hinges. The windows are rectangular timber vertically hung sashes, 3 over 6, without horns. SETTING The front yard is hard surfaced. It is bounded by a rubble stone and rendered wall which has a vehicular gateway at the south end, comprising a pair of circular sandstone piers without gates. To the rear of the building is a small field for grazing.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The precise date of building is not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1833-4. Stylistically it dates from the mid-18th century, and was part of the 18th century development of the Killymoon estate by the Stewart family, before the building of the present Killymoon Castle. References - Primary Sources 1. OS Map of 1833-4. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Dungannon and Cookstown (Belfast, 1971), p 36. 2. A.J. Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North-West Ulster (Harmondsworth, 1979), p 334.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

V. Authorship W. Northern Ireland/International Interest Z. Rarity

Evaluation

A two-storey rubble sandstone, gabled block, with a projecting hipped-roofed ashlar sandstone three-bay centrepiece, and a lower single storey block set at right angles at one end. This is a nicely proportioned building of mid-18th century date in a simple classical style with such characteristic features as Gibbsian surrounds to some windows and doorways, moulded stone cornicing, and arched entrances with keystones. It is of special interest not only as an imposing example of its type, but together with Killymoon Castle, its 18th century outbuildings and the various other estate structures, it forms a significant group of buildings associated with a substantial family from an early date until the first part of the Twentieth century.

General Comments

This record has been renumbered from HB09/05/002

Date of Survey

09 March 2008