Crockahilly Road

Dreen, Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: House
Date of construction: 1860 - 1879
Address: Crockahilly Road, Dreen,, Park,, Co Londonderry, BT47 4DL
Townland: Dreen
Council: Derry City and Strabane
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.85168, -7.06071
Date of survey: 20 August 1997
HB reference: HB01/01/015

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Former thatched house completely altered, part demolished. Extension erected to form a T-plan arrangement with new porch erected in angle. Thatched roof replaced with asbestos slates. Windows timber top hung opening out and new panelled door. Little of a discernibly historical character remains.

Its location, hidden behind trees with a sinking path approch road relative to the adjacent fields, is the only discernable character of the vernacular retained.

Historical information

Not recorded on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1831.
Recorded briefly in HB records of 1970 as a ' harled and whitened thatched cottage with 2 chimneys. The entrance is flanked on one side by a sashed window and on the other by a modern window. Ther is a modern extension to the rear. Whitened stone outbuildings with corrugated iron roof.'

Reference - Primary

1. OS Map 1st Edition 1831, Co Londonderry sheet 29
2. OS Map 2nd Edition 1848, Co Londonderry sheet 29
3. OS Map 1905 Revision , Co Londonderry sheet 29

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Completely altered former thatched house.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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