Vacant Cottage

Rallagh, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: House
Date of construction: 1800 - 1819
Address: Vacant Cottage, 749 Glenshane Road, Rallagh, Dungiven, Co Londonderry
Townland: Rallagh
Council: Causeway Coast and Glens
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.92485, -6.91910
Date of survey: 21 July 2000
HB reference: HB02/05/029

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 2 storey vacant house.

The entrance front is 3 bay wide with central square headed door and on either side a vertically proportioned window. Above there are two gabled dormers. To the side of the house low pitched lean-to extension with a modern proportioned window on the front side. The roof is slated, ½ hipped, with natural slates and having a central chimney stack. On the gable a vertically proportioned window over lean-to. On the rear two ground floor windows and directly over at first floor two vertically proportioned windows. The other gable has no openings. All windows and doors are boarded up. Walls are smooth rendered.

The dwelling is sited on a laneway from the Glenshane Road and is on the west side of the grounds of the former rectory.

Historical information

This house is shown on the 1830 O.S. Map and maybe contemporary with the rectory.

References

Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An early 19th cent. cottage erected as part of the rectory estate as a tenant’s dwelling.

Nearby in the register

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

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