4 Glenconway Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

farm buildings consisting of dwelling, , outbuildings and farmyard which is bounded by house on W side and outbuildings to S and N. The back of the dwelling is close to and parallel to the verge of Glenconway Road. Buildings are smooth rendered externally, colour washed and roofed with corrugated iron painted red.

Thehouse is 3 bays long with entrance door from farmyard. The door was probably direct entry with single window to kitchen overlooking farmyard. To the north side of door a room with 2 windows which appears to have been altered and now have concrete cillsand are wider than the kitchen window. Probably 2 windows have replaced former single window. There is a bed outshot to the kitchen and there are 3 windows to the roadside. There is a room beyond the kitchen with a single window with higher head and cill than the kitchen window indicating a higher floor level. There is a large amount of walling above the window and door openings suggesting that a thatch roof has been removed or a loft extended the length of the house There is a window opening on the N gable. There is a redbrick chimney to the N gable and another to the kitchen fireplace. The roof has unpainted corrugated iron with ½ round metal gutters and downpipes. All windows and doors are boarded up.

At the N gable of the house there is a lean to shed with low pitched roof and walls clad in corrugated iron. At the S gable an outbuilding extends in line with the house and then turns at right angles. It has smooth rendered walls, one narrow door opening and one wide opening, which extends to the eaves line, each with access to the farmyard. The roofing is corrugated iron, painted red without chimneys. ½ round metal guttering and single downpipe.

Opposite the last and at the N end of farmyard another outbuilding at right angles to the house but unconnected to it as access to house and farmyard is by the gap left between these structures. This outbuilding is similar in construction to last with smooth rendered white colour washed walls and 2 wide double door openings from yard each faced with corrugated iron. Double pitched roof again with corrugated iron and lengths of translucent sheets to light interior. There is a small lean to at the W gable.

This is a neat group of vernacular farm buildings sited on the verge of the Glenconway Road with gateway access to the farmyard onto which all doors open. Presently the farmyard has a neat gravel finish.

Historical information

Thehouse and outbuildings are shown on the 1832 O.S.S. 24 and there appear to have been little changes in the buildings disposition since except for the changes in external materials.

References

Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1st Edition 1832 Co Londonderry sheet no 24
2. O.S. Map 1st Rev. 1856 Co Londonderry sheet no 24
3. Neighbour – 19-08-1999

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An interesting group of vernacular farm buildings, whose disposition is unchanged from the early 19th century. Interesting, too, from its adaptation of corrugated iron cladding which does not detract from the plan form. It is well worth recording. It is difficult to be more precise in the evaluation because the interior was not accessible.