48 Glenedra Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 2 storey 4 bay long house with short back return, gabled, slated and having 4 chimney stacks.

The entrance elevation which faces in a northerly direction has an off centre square headed, fanlight doorway with modern 6 panel hardwood door in clear finish, undivided fanlight. To the east a single sliding sash window, 16 pane, in a pattern of “margin lights”but in clear glass (style dates from 1815), with smooth plaster reveals returned on edge, painted like cill. On other side of door 2 similar windows widely spaced. At first floor 4 windows directly over openings below but have less height, the top sash being slightly more than ½ the bottom one. Wall in rough cast rendering, painted, with bellcast over smooth rendered plinth. Narrow vertical band of smooth rendering at each quoin. Eaves level just above window head, ½ round metal gutters, round downpipe. Bangor blue, slated roof with red roll ridge tile. Four chimney stacks, rebuilt in yellow brick chamfer and band courses. One stack is dummy which is more or less in line with entrance door. Gables are windowless. Back return to rear has lean to Bangor blue slated roof sweeping down in line with main roof. Windows on either side of back return match those on front elevation. The back return has a double sliding sash window with astragals arranged as others. A rear door with 4 panels, upper 2 glazed. All walls are rough cast rendered and painted in yellow colour with white trims. Barges nonexistent, merely slate overhang.

Rear main roof as front but having 2 no. velux rooflights to light 1st floor corridor.

To the rear of the house an L plan single storey stone built farm outbuildings with Bangor blue slated roof beginning to sag. Wall of outbuilding hard against road verge. There are other modern outbuildings, together form an enclosed farmyard with one gated opening to county road. This opening has a very large flat stone lintol with ½ redbrick relieving arch over.

The house is sited at right angles to the road and a short distance from Fincarn crossroads. The intervening space is a pleasant garden in front of house. The boundary wall has been rebuilt in small rubble whinestone in a rustic manner. The house itself has been recently completely renovated. Original metal gates retained with cast iron panelled posts. The exterior previously was covered in creeper (see old photograph).

Historical information

House is indicated on the 1830 O.S. map. Probably rebuilt mid 19th century. There is a headstone in Banagher, C of I graveyard of Isabell Thompson, wife of John Thompson, of Crossroads, Fincarn, died 1856). The house has been renovated in 1980s with help of NIHE grant, but redecorated in the late 1990s. The Thompsons were succeeded by Miller and later from 1965 by the current owner's father. His mother resides in new house across road where formerly there had been a saw mill.

References

Primary Sources
1. O.S. map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30.
2. O.S. map 1830 rev. 1905 Londonderry sh. 30.
3. Owner (2000).
4. Notes 1st survey, Built Heritage, 5-33 Hill Street, Belfast.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A prominently sited mid 19th cent. farmhouse which has been recently renovated. The astragal arrangement of the windows with margin lights is a good example of the type.However much of the period character has been lost both inside and out.