Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB01/25/004 B

Address :
Stables at Boomhall Culmore Road Londonderry BT48 8JE

Townland:
Ballynashallog

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
21/10/1997 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Stables

Former Use
Stables

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
26/16 NE

IG Ref:
C4493 1963

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Owner Category

Local Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

A 2 storey 5 bay wide stone built partially derelict stable block with partly collapsed slated roof symmetrically composed in Georgian style and enclosing a courtyard on 4 sides. The S and entrance façade has central segmental arched gateway, sandstone trimmed in short and long voissoirs, on each side 2 vertical window openings, some built up, at first floor level 900mm diam. oculii over openings below, each with moulded architrave. First floor continues over gateway. The courtyard is square with 2 storey buildings enclosing it. Window and doors occur spasmodically and there was, in the past, living accommodation within the block and several stairways. First floor constructed of timber. Much of the roof timbers are collapsed. The exterior wall of the stable looked onto a wall garden no longer extant except for arched gateway access. There are no other openings in this wall. The east wall has a segmented gateway with several window openings occurring randomly. The stable block is sited to the NW of the main house and a short distance from it. What would have been the back avenue passes it. To the rear and to the north of the stable block is another walled garden in an unkempt state. The walls are built of random rubble schist with sandstone and brick trim.

Architects

Priestly, Michael

Historical Information

The stable block is shown on the 1832 O.S. map and is most likely contemporary with the house of 1779 and may have been designed by M. Priestly. The wall garden to the west is not shown but is shown on the later map of 1856 and may, therefore have been erected by the Blairs (see HB01/25/004A). The stable block is tenanted by a Patrick McCloskey who keeps horses stabled there as well as grazing them on the adjacent fields. The block is now part of the complex owned by the Derry District Council (see HB01/25/004A). References Primary Sources: 1. UAFP O.S. Map 1832 Londonderry No. 13 2. UAFP O.S. Map 1st Rev. 1856 Londonderry No.13 Secondary Sources: 1. UAHS Buildings of City of Derry p.54 2. A Malley – History of Boomhall, Derry. (unpublished short article).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form E. Spatial Organisation J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

V. Authorship

Evaluation

A good example of a stable courtyard with fine long and short ashlar sandstone arched entrances.Though in a ruinous condition the buildings are largely unaltered and are not beyond restoration.

General Comments

Date of Survey

18 October 1999