40 Moneydig Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached rendered four-bay two-storey house, built c.1863, restored and extended c.1987. L-shaped on plan facing south and located on the east side of Moneydig Road on an elevated site with a range of outbuildings to a rear yard.

Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles, two rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots to either gable end and overhanging timber sheeted eaves and bargeboards. Replacement cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and replacement 6/6 timber sash windows.

Asymmetrical front elevation is four windows wide with an off-centre elliptical-headed door opening having a replacement elliptical-headed tripartite timber doorcase complete with webbed fanlight and sidelights and a replacement decorative moulded surround. Front door opens onto concrete platform and step to front gravel path and front lawn.

West gable has a single window to each floor.

Rear elevation abutted by a gable-ended two-storey return, built c.1987.

East gable is abutted by a lean-to conservatory, erected c.2000.

Setting:
Located on an elevated site to the east of Moneydig Road enclosed to the road by a native hedgerow and accessed via replacement gates on replacement stone piers to the north end of the rear yard. The west side of the yard is enclosed by a range of single-storey rendered outbuildings with corrugated iron roof. To the north end at the vehicular entrance is a two-storey rubblestone outbuilding. Former entrance to the south of the property via pair of wrought-iron gates on rendered piers and curved walls.

Roof Natural slate
RWG Cast-iron
Walling Painted rough-cast render
Windows Replacement timber sash

Historical information

A building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1831-2 which has survived as an outbuilding. The present day house and kennels were not added to the site until 1863, however and are first shown on the third edition OS map of 1904-5, where the farmhouse is captioned ‘Rough Hedges’.

Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) lists the earlier house on the site as the home of Robert Hazlett, a caretaker’s house and offices valued at £2 and situated on a plot of over 28 acres. The farm was leased from the Marquess of Waterford and passed to William Kennedy who rebuilt the farmhouse. The valuation was raised to £5.15s in 1863, as the result of new additions to the site, namely the present house and kennels. The 1911 census records farmer William Kennedy living at the house with his wife and four young children. The family employed a 15-year-old servant girl. The nine-room house was designated first class and had 8 outbuildings. A labourer’s house and garden were added to the plot in 1906 at a valuation of £2.10s. The building continues in domestic use.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/5/19/1 First Edition OS Map 1831-2
2. PRONI OS/6/5/19/2 Second Edition OS map 1849-53
3. PRONI OS/6/5/19/3 Third Edition OS Map 1904-5
4. PRONI OS/6/5/19/4 Fourth Edition OS Map 1924-27
5. PRONI VAL/1/B/51 Townland Valuation (1828-40)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/30/6A-F Annual Revisions (1864-1929)
7. Griffith’s Valuation online
8. 1901/1911 census

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
R. Age
S. Authenticity

Evaluation

Detached rendered two-storey house, built c.1863, restored and extended c.1987. L-shaped on plan facing south and located on the east side of Moneydig Road on an elevated site with a range of outbuildings to a rear yard. While there have been extensive changes to the interior layout and detailing, the use of appropriate materials during a refurbishment scheme has ensured that the building retains its overall historic character. Its interest is enhanced by a fine two storey outbuilding, good quality wrought iron gates with rendered pillars and curved walling and an unspoilt rural setting.

General comments

Listing Criteria R - Age and S - Authenticity also apply.