65 Cushleake Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached four-bay single-storey rubblestone dwelling, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan facing south east with front entrance porch, two lean-to extensions and located on an elevated site on the north side of Cushleake Road.

Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, a single iron rooflight to the front pitch and two rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron guttering on iron drive-through brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Whitewashed render over rubblestone walling. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement top-hung timber casement windows.

Four-bay east front elevation with off-centre flat-roofed square-plan projecting entrance porch having corrugated iron roof covering and cast-iron rainwater goods. A single diminutive window opening to the left cheek (south west) with fixed-pane timber framed window. Square-headed door opening with vertically-sheeted timber half door having a diminutive light to the upper half. The left bay has a further square-headed door opening with half-glazed sheeted timber door.

Blind south west gable with concrete coping and small lean-to extension to the left having corrugated iron roof. To the right is a small animal pen enclosed by rubblestone wall and iron railing with matching gate.

Three-bay rear elevation with lean to extensions to north east and south west.

North gable abutted by lean-to rubblestone byre having corrugated iron roof and square-headed vehicular opening with double-leaf timber sheeted doors.

Roof Natural slate
RWG Cast-iron
Walling Whitewashed render over rubblestone
Windows Replacement timber casement

Setting:
Located on an elevated site on the north side of Cushleake Road with a small rubblestone outbuilding to the southwest, having corrugated iron roof and vertically-sheeted timber door. Grass driveway descends southwards to the road with a replacement steel gate hung on a square masonry post and timber fence.

Historical information

No. 65 Cushleake Road, a single-storey vernacular farmhouse located in the townland of Cushleake Mountain South, was constructed prior to 1832. The earliest record of the building was on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1832) which depicted the building along its current rectangular layout. The contemporary Townland Valuations (1834) did not record the farmhouse as there were no houses in the townland of Cushleake Mountain South worth the minimum £3 per annum required for inclusion in that source.

There was little alteration to the layout of the site by the second edition Ordnance Survey map (1857) which continued to depict the farmhouse along its current layout. The contemporary Griffiths Valuation (1859) set the total rateable value of No. 65 Cushleake Road at £2 and noted that the building was leased by a Mr. James Robert White, of Whitehall Broughshane, to John McQuilty, a local farmer. The Annual Revisions notes that ownership of No. 65 Cushleake Road had passed to the estate of General Sir. George White in c. 1872. The occupants of the farmhouse changed with frequency over the following four decades and by the turn of the 20th century No. 65 Cushleake Road was inhabited by the McClintock family. The 1901 Census of Ireland notes that the site was occupied by Andrew McClintock, who was employed by the White estate as a local gamekeeper. The accompanying census building return described No. 65 Cushleake Road as a 2nd class dwelling that possessed a slate roof and consisted of three rooms. The third edition Ordnance Survey map (1903-04) records that the rubble-stone outbuilding to the west of the farmhouse had been constructed by at least the turn of the century. The value of No. 65 Cushleake Road was slightly raised to £2 and 10 shillings under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57). The McClintock family continued to reside at the site until at least the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956-72) at which time stood at £2 and the occupant was a Mr. A. McClintock.

Field inspection of the site, carried out as part of the Second Survey, has found that the building is no longer occupied; its function as a farmhouse has been superseded by a modern dwelling to its south-east side and the original vernacular dwelling is now maintained as an outbuilding.

References

Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/1/15/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/1/15/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1857)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest
R. Age
S. Authenticity
T. Historic Importance

Evaluation

Detached three-bay single-storey rubblestone dwelling, built c.1830. A modest vernacular house which retains its original form, outbuildings and many external features, set in a relatively unaltered, elevated, rural setting. One of an increasingly rare vernacular building type, this dwelling as one of few within the rural Moyle district, is of special architectural and historic as well as local interest.