54 Glen Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1850. Rectangular on plan facing northeast and located on the south east side of Glen Road with its side gabled elevation (NW) fronting directly onto the road.

Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, cement coping to either gable end, three ruled-and-lined cement rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash rendered walling with painted smooth rendered plinth course, corner strips and platband between floors. Informally laid-out square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, painted masonry sills and sliding timber sliding sash windows (2/2 to ground floor, single-pane to first floor).

Northeast front elevation has a central lean-to windbreaker entrance porch with flush timber door. Door opens onto small enclosed front area.

Southeast gable inaccessible due to vegetation growth.

Two-bay two-storey rear elevation, detailed as above with a single replacement hardwood casement window.

Blind gabled northwest side elevation fronting directly onto the road and abutted by a thick rendered boundary wall.

Roof Natural slate
RWG Cast-iron
Walling Pebbledash render
Windows Timber sliding sash

Setting:
Located on a small site on the south east side of Glen Road enclosed by pebbledash rendered wall. Small area to the front enclosed by original iron gates hung on pebbledash rendered square piers.

Historical information

No. 54 Glen Road, a two-storey farmhouse located in the townland of Tamlaght, was constructed between 1832 and 1857. The farmhouse was not recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1832) but did appear on the second edition map (1857) where it was depicted as a simple rectangular-shaped structure. The contemporary Griffith’s Valuation (c. 1859) records that the farmhouse was initially valued at £1 and was leased by Edmund Cuppage, a local landowner who resided at Mount Edwards House, to a Mr. Reynold Delargy.

Reynold Delargy continued to reside at No. 54 Glen Road until c. 1879 when the farmhouse passed to his relative, Hugh Delargy (the Delargy family also acquired the neighbouring farmhouse at No. 52 Glen Road by at least c. 1871 – see HB05/01/030). The 1901 Census of Ireland recorded that Hugh Delargy was employed as a local farmer and resided at No. 54 Glen Road with his wife and son. The accompanying census building return described the farmhouse as a 2nd class slated dwelling that consisted of three rooms and possessed a stable, a cow house and a barn as its sole outbuildings. The contemporary third edition Ordnance Survey map (1903) recorded no change to the layout of the farmhouse since the mid-19th century but noted that the site’s outbuilding were located on the opposite side of the road (now demolished and replaced with modern farm buildings). Hugh Delargy continued to reside at No. 54 Glen Road until c. 1923 when Alexander Delargy, the occupant of the neighbouring No. 52, took possession of the site.

The value of No. 54 Glen Road was increased to £5 and 5 shillings under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) which noted that a Mr. Patrick Delargy, a seaman, had purchased the farmhouse outright from the Cuppage estate. Patrick Delargy died in 1962, however No. 54 Glen Road remained with the Delargy family until at least the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72) at which time the total rateable value of the farmhouse and its outbuildings stood at £6 and 10 shillings. Field inspection of the site, carried out as part of the Second Survey, has found that No. 54 Glen Road remains vacant and has fallen into a state of disrepair.

References

Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/1/20/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/20/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1857)
3. PRONI OS/6/1/20/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1903)
4. PRONI OS/6/1/20/4 – Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1921)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/38 – Griffith’s Valuation (c. 1859)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/7/1A-E – Annual Revisions (1863-1929)
7. PRONI VAL/3/C/1/21 – First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57)
8. PRONI VAL/4/B/1/35 – Second General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1956-72)
9. Ulster Town Directories (1861-1918)
10. Census of Ireland (1901; 1911)
11. PRONI Wills Catalogue (10 Jul 1962)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1850. This house and its neighbour - no. 54 Glen Road (HB05/01/031) - are good examples of farmhouses in their original settings: situated directly on the roadside on elongated sites, their field boundaries a relic of the rundale system once common in the area. Though the buildings are of local interest, insufficient historic fabric remains for these buildings to be considered of special architectural and historic interest.