Townley Hall

Outbuilding in Louth, Ireland, dating from 1785–1805

Stone outbuildings, built c. 1795, some now converted to domestic use. Three courtyards with detached four-bay two-storey stone building to east. West courtyard with three ranges of single- and two-storey stone and rendered buildings to north, south and west, south-east courtyard with two-storey ranges to stone buildings to north and west, north-east courtyard now in ruins. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, clay hip and ridge tiles; red brick corbelled chimneystacks, some shouldered; bellcote to east gable south-east courtyard; cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Random rubble stone and painted roughcast-rendered walling; squared and snecked limestone walling to south-east courtyard; cast-iron wall ties. Square-headed window openings; block-and-start dressed limestone surrounds, limestone sills, painted timber three-over-three sliding sash windows to south-east courtyard; block-and-start brick jambs with flat-arched brick lintels, limestone sills to west range west courtyard and east building, painted timber casement windows to east building; square-headed openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, limestone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows to north and north-west ranges west courtyard; lunettes with brick surrounds to west range west courtyard. Square-headed door openings; block-and-start dressed limestone reveals with lintels, pai

Type:
Outbuilding

Period:
1785–1805

Where:
Louth, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.73°N, 6.45°W

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