9/11 Linenhall Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Group of two red bricked terraced houses in the Georgian style, located in a terrace of much smaller houses facing south west into Linenhall street. Each building is four bays wide, upper floors have, intact though decaying, twelve pane sash windows with stone cills. Two windows on the ground floor of number 11 have been widened into a shopfront, a third remains. Its entrance door is on the south east end. It has a segmental fanlight with cobweb pattern astragals, an entablature below supported by blank pilasters and a panelled door in bad condition with simple period door furniture. Number 9 has a segmental arch giving access to the rear at the south east end with full height painted timber gate. There are two surviving 12 pane sash windows at ground level (boarded up) and a door with rectangular fanlight at the north west end. This door is lower than that of number 11. The fanlight aligns with the head of the windows and is divided into three panes. The entablature below is broken by two scroll brackets (consoles) supported on reeded pilasters. The door is a smaller version of number 11 with similar door furniture. Interestingly the flat arch over is one brick too short on either side. The roof is natural slate with red clay ridge tile. Chimneys are brick, one at each end of the group and a third unusually, one bay from the south east end (to other side of arch) and very close to its neighbour.

To the rear are roof lights and a less ordered pattern of windows. The two storey stables to the rear are intact.

Historical information

Buildings first indicated on the 1848 Ordnance Survey maps. Occupied by Mr James Proctor as a single residence in the 1858 Griffiths Valuation.( value: £30.) It is likely that the smaller door to number 9 was a window at this time. Immediate lessor in 1858 was Frederick McCausland as for all the other buildings on this side of Linenhall Street.The buildings were acquired from Mr George Henry Perrott Buchanan of 27 Ashley Gardens London by N I E in 17 August 1965 for the sum of £4,250.00.00, the occupant at the time being George Norman Porter.. N I E used it as a showroom and offices until 1988 when they were sold to Mr Robert Noble who in turn sold them to the present owner (1997). The premises have been unoccupied for some time.

Reference:
Primary Sources:
OS Map 'Newtown Limavady' (1848 revision with notes of 1858 valuation) PRONI: 058/120/1/1 & T2933/3/140
OS Map ' Town of Limavady' (1895) PRONI:Val 2D/5/4 & 293/4/261
OS Map ' Town of Limavady' (1907) PRONI:058/120/2/3
Griffiths Valuation 1858.' Newtown Limavady'

Secondary Sources
D Girvan, 'The Buildings of north Derry' UAHS 1975 p12
N I E Property Department (Registry Book no. 50 no. 290).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Formerly a single house, row converted into two with interesting door-cases and surviving windows. A good example of the type which would add to the architectural character of Limavady if properly maintained. It is the only building in Linenhall Street with the Georgian character of Main Street and Catherine Street and deserves to be preserved to reflect this quality.