Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
7 Lower Main Street
Dungiven, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 28 March 1975
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 7 Lower Main Street, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4LD
- Townland
- Dungiven
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.92877, -6.92916
- Date of survey
- 20 April 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/06/006 A
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Two storey, two structural bay, end of terrace house with basement. Front elevation facing north west is located at the edge of the footpath without garden. Four steps rise parallel to the street to a platform at the entrance door. Simple wrought iron handrail. Door with segmental headed fanlight is enclosed by a plain plaster architrave with a projecting head above. A stone stringcourse above doubles as a cill for the first floor windows. The first floor windows are unadorned four pane sliding sashes. The window below to the ground floor is larger but similarly treated. Windows and doors align. Cast iron rainwater goods and natural slated roof. The rainwater pipe is on the junction with the neighbour number 11 (HB02/06/006B). The string course does not carry on across the adjacent fence.
The gable facing south west has no openings and is surmounted by a large chimney simply detailed and having five pots. Ground level at the base falls steeply to the rear.
The rear elevation faces south east. It has two twelve pane sliding sashes at first floor, a tripartite window and a four pane sash at ground level and a smaller tripartite, four pane sash and central single storey return at basement level. The basement opens out onto the rear garden. The remains of outbuildings are located in the garden which extends to the rear and around the side of the house to Main Street.
Historical information
It is difficult to discern if the building shown on the 1832 map is No. 7 but it is referred to in Griffith’s V B 1858.
Primary Sources
Griffiths V B 1858 Mary McCullough occupant, William Deane Lessor val. ho. £1-10-0.
O.S. Map 1st Edition 1832 Londonderry 24
O.S. Map 1832 Rev. 1856 Londonderry 24
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A two storey end of terrace house in a simple Georgian style. Well maintained and forms a pleasing character at the western entrance to Dungiven.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Lower Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 11 Lower Main StreetHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 15 Lower Main StreetShop - Terraceunder 1 mi
- Strangemore HouseHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.