House near 20 Tirmacoy Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two storey, three bay farmhouse. Rendered in sand cement, with a natural slate roof and a chimney on each gable. Front of house faces north west with a fine view over Walworth Forest to Binevenagh. Tripartite sash windows aligning around a central flat roofed porch. House in a derelict condition, glass and some mullions gone from windows, render to sides falling off. Render of architraves around windows finely executed.

Gables are blank. A lean-to kitchen return projects flush with the south east gable and adjoins a barn parallel with the house to the rear. Windows on the rear elevation appear to align with those on the front. Frames are gone, size is of a standard sash.

The farmyard is at the end of a long lane from Tirmacoy Road. It adjoins the farmyard of a replacement dwelling marked on Ordnance Survey Maps as ‘The Moor’. A roofless ‘L’ of former barns with the circular brick windows typical of the area is situated to the west of the house.

Historical information

Post 1830 house, substantially renovated at the turn of the century. Building derelict for many years.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An interisting, if rather derelict farmhouse which had a number of unusual features worth recording. In particular, the size of the fireplace in the kitchen, the quality of the cast iron fireplaces, the tripartite windows, the fine detail of the exterior plaster work and the unusual access to a first floor bedroom from the kitchen. The building is nicely proportioned, has an unusual variation on a common plan and has relatively unusual windows in a common sub-Georgian elevation. Unfortunately it is presently too derelict to list as restoration would involve excessive replacement of fabric. It is of local historical interest.