Principal Range, Ballinshoe Farmsteading

The Principal Range at Ballinshoe Farmsteading dates to 1776, with additions made in the early 19th century. It is a long, rectangular steading range incorporating single-storey additions to the left and centre, and a two-storey domestic extension to the right. The 18th-century 10-bay block includes a 5-bay cart shed section, dated 1776. The 19th-century extension is 7 bays wide (4 bays to the first floor).

The 18th-century sections are built of squared, coursed, stugged rubble, while the 19th-century extension uses snecked squared stugged rubble. Rear and side elevations are largely random rubble, with a rendered section on the left of the rear elevation.

The south-east (principal) elevation features a 5-bay section with a timber-boarded door to the outer left bay; a timber and glazed door to the fourth bay from the left; and concrete-framed windows in altered or non-original openings in the remainder of the bays. The blind first floor is above. An attached 5-bay central section has ground-floor, segmentally-arched cart openings, with the central arch bearing a projecting keystone dated '1776'. Four recessed surrounds frame the first-floor openings. To the right is a ground-floor opening enclosing stone stairs, and two timber doors with letterbox fanlights, each flanked by windows. A single-storey lean-to extension is on the far right, with a single window in an altered opening; four windows are visible to the first floor.

The north-west (rear) elevation has a blind single-storey lean-to on the outer left. Two single-storey lean-to extensions are positioned to the left of the range - one of harled masonry, the other of timber with corrugated iron and a dormer-headed window that breaks the eaves. The central section of the range has four deeply splayed slit windows to the interior, plus a doorway to the right, with two small timber-boarded openings above. A projecting wing sits between the central and right sections, with a single opening to the first floor of the right section.

The south-west (side) elevation has a single opening to both ground and first floors, and an adjoining 20th-century lean-to structure. The north-east (side) elevation is blind, with a single-storey lean-to to the ground floor.

The principal elevation has lying-pane timber casement windows to the left, and four-pane timber sash and case windows to the right. The roof is pitched, with stone skews and an apex block to the southwest gable. Stone slates are visible on the principal elevation and the lean-to on the northeast gable; concrete slates are on the rear slope. Corniced gable head stacks are on the northeast gable, and a corniced ridge stack is on the 19th-century section; circular cans are also present.