Carrowgarry, Beltra, Co Sligo – coffee roasters
Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 59. “(Crichton/IFR) A Victorian house built ca 1880 by A.J. Crichton.”
Carrowgarry House, TANREGO WEST, County Sligo
Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1889. Main house L-plan, single-storey timber-framed sun room to south elevation, attached single-storey wing to north-west, two-storey canted bays to east and west elevations. Hipped slate roof, dormers on line of ridge projecting to east and west, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, uPVC profiled gutters to main roof, cast-iron to dormers. Unpainted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, vertical slate hanging to dormer cheeks. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted two-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed entrance accessed through sun room, painted half-glazed timber panelled door. Pitched slate roof to north-west wing, smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack on north gable, overhanging scalloped painted timber eaves and barges, extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Unpainted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Square-headed window openings, masonry sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Painted timber vertically-sheeted entrance door. Two-storey farm manager’s house, ‘L’-plan with inner courtyard and single-storey range to north. Corrugated iron-clad barn, with round wood columns, to north of farmyard. Approached by gravelled, tree-lined, driveway from south. Wrought-iron style with moulded cast-iron hanging post for gate. Sligo Bay to north.
Appraisal
This plain house is typical of mid-size Irish country houses. The farmyard to the north is intact and the large barn, further north, is of special interest because of its structure which adopts round wood support columns.
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