Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
89 Tirkane Road
Tullyheran, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- House
- Date of listing
- 29 September 2006
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 89 Tirkane Road, Tullyheran, Maghera, Co. Londonderry, BT46 5NE
- Townland
- Tullyheran
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85142, -6.68910
- Date of survey
- 17 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB08/04/017
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A pair of single storey, six-bay, direct entry houses with remains of thatch under corrugated iron roofing.
The houses occupy a roadside position facing south-west behind small gardens bounded at the front by low walling
Each kitchen hearth is served by a rendered corbelled chimneystack. That on the left rises from the gable and the other is placed centrally to serve the right-hand house.
At the left-hand (north-west) side the corrugated iron covering terminates in a concrete parapet and is finished flush over the gable on the opposite side.
The eaves of the roof of the right-hand house terminate at the front by means of a canted fascia board.
The wall construction is of rubble stone roughly plastered and whitened on the front elevation. The stonework is exposed at the sides and at the rear.
Each house has a central doorway flanked on either side by a metal-framed casement window made up of two sections of three vertical panes.
The door of the left-hand (north-west) house is missing and the door of the right-hand house is ledged, braced and timber sheeted.
Historical information
The houses do not appear on the OS map of 1832 but they are shown as a simple rectangle on the revision of 1854.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS map, 1st edition 1832, Co. Londonderry, sheet 36
2. OS map, 1st revision 1854, Co. Londonderry, sheet 36
Secondary Sources
Conversations with owner.
There is a possibility that rather than being vernacular houses in the usual sense of the term ie part of a smallholding, these may have been built as "cotter" (cotteir ) houses connected with a local farm or small estate.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
A pair of single storey, each of three bays, direct entry houses with remains of thatch under corrugated iron roofing.
The layouts are unchanged and the roof structure is intact.
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