Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
1 Mulkeeragh Road
Mulkeeragh, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- 1 Mulkeeragh Road, Dungiven, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Mulkeeragh
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.98405, -6.91442
- Date of survey
- 21 January 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/07/005
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 1½ storey derelict house, gabled, large natural slates, harled externally, chimney on each gable.
The entrance front has a central doorway with rectangular fanlight with geometric arrangement of astragals. Door missing. Single window on either side with contemporary casements, glass missing. Harling is falling off and exposing stone built walls under with large rough corner stones and brick trim to windows and doors. Gutter and downpipes missing. Many slates missing on roof. Chimney stacks disintegrating.
Each gable has 2 sliding sash windows lighting the attic rooms. Sash boxes exposed, glass missing. Wall harling in similar condition as front. Rear elevation has similar arrangement of door and windows.
The building is sited on the south side of Mulkeeragh Road and set back about 10 metres from it. There is neither gates nor pillars nor boundary walls and the ground front and rear is a sea of mud. There are no outbuildings.
Historical information
The house is not shown on the O.S. map sheet 25 1832 nor on the revision of 1856-8.
The first Building Survey in 18/8/1970 describes the building – “later C19 a 1½ storey house with harled and whitened walls. The roof is slated, chimneys rise from each gable. A modern flush door is surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with patterned g.b. The entrance is flanked either side by a double hung window, each four-pane wide with full glazing bars . Gable windows are double hung with sashes divided into two panes vertically”. It further refers to it appearing on the O.S. map of 1905. The house was last lived in by a Mr. Jim Smith and family in the 1960's. Mr. Smith was a small farmer. The land and house has since been sold to the present owner.. Mulkeeragh townland was formerly in the Haberdashers Proportion.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. map 1st Edition 1832 Co Londonderry sh. 25
2. O.S. map 1st Rev. 1856-58 Co Londonderry sh. 25
3. 1st EHS Building Survey – Descriptive notes
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A mid Victorian 1½ storey cottage in a quasi Georgian/vernacular style. Becoming derelict.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.