Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
301 Ballyquin Road
Drumneechy, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- 301 Ballyquin Road, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4RE
- Townland
- Drumneechy
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.97218, -6.92003
- Date of survey
- 21 January 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/07/025 A
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A 1½ storey detached house, gabled, central chimney stack, asbestos slated, roof pedimented over central entrance door, roughcast rendered, with small conservatory return to rear.
The entrance front has central sheeted door with rendered piers on either side and over a lean to open porch roof supported on gallows brackets. On each side of entrance door segmental headed single windows in PVC sliding sash 12 pane. Over the entrance door a smaller sliding sash window 2 pane positioned in the pediment. The cill of this window is in line with the gutter on each side of pediment. The pediment has plain timber barges and there is no overhang on either side.
Each gable is similar with double sliding sash PVC 12 pane windows centrally placed. At first floor in the gable two single sliding sash PVC 12 pane windows of equal size to those on the entrance façade. Plain wood bargeboard small slit ventilation to roofspace.
The rear façade has a single 4 pane sliding sash window close to a small glass conservatory at the N W corner. There is a door from the house to it.
The roof has asbestos slates with small rendered central chimney with 2 pots.
The former teacher’s house is sited close to the verg of Ballyquin Road, west side and the former Drumneechy school is immediately to the north. The small front garden has a low rendered boundary wall with gate piers. To the south of the house a small garage of later vintage.
Historical information
The house is not shown on the O.S. map 1856-58 sheet 25. It is shown on O.S. map 1905. The dwelling was erected as a teacher’s residence. See HB02/07/008B for reference to adjoining school building.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S map 1st Rev. 1856-58 Londonderry 25
2. O.S. map 2nd Edition 1905 Londonderry 39-10
3. 1st Buildings Survey – Descriptive notes.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A neat late Victorian 1½ storey teachers house in an Arts & Crafts style.
Nearby in the register
- 299 Ballyquin RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Lower Gelvin BridgeDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Straw HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.