19 Ballynargan Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

This is a detached two-storey house, built c.1830. It is long and rectangular in plan with a two-storey return to the rear. To the South of this return is a single-storey lean-to. On the South gable, there is a single-storey garage. On the North gable is a two-storey extension with a two-storey return to the rear. The house is set behind a small garden with a low-rise wall to the front, to the West side of Ballynargan Road.

External walls are roughcast render. The roof is pitched with slate. There are two rendered painted chimneys with profiled stepped capping to the roof.

The front elevation faces East onto Ballynargan Road. The ground floor has a doorway to the centre flanked by a window to each side. The door is timber panelled with a rectangular overlight. There is a rendered band around the doorway. Windows to the ground floor square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash with margin panes. All windows are set on painted cut-stone sills. window height is reduced on the upper floor.

The side South elevation is gable-ended and is partially obscured by the single-storey garage to the South. There are no further openings to this gable. There is a plain rendered chimney to the apex, with profiled stepped capping.

The side North elevation is fully obscured by the new extension.

The rear West elevation has square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash with margin panes.

Returns:

The rear two-storey return is gable-ended. The side South elevation is obscured to the ground floor by a single-storey extension. The rear West gable-end has a square-headed window to the ground floor. The side North elevation has no openings.

The single-storey porch to the Southwest corner of the return has a chamfered corner. The corner has a square-headed door. There is a small window to the South face. The roof is sloped with artificial slate.

The South single-storey return is rubble stone, and steps down into two buildings. The front East elevation has a central window to the right building, and a central window to the left building. Windows are square-headed with diamond patterned windows. The window to the right has a smooth cut-stone surround. The window to the left has a red brick surround and is set on a red brick stall riser. The South elevation is gable-ended and contains no openings. The rear West elevation has a large square-headed garage opening to the left. The opening has red brick surrounds. The roof is pitched with artificial slate, there is a roof light to the left building on the West sloping roof.

The North extension is under construction. All windows and door openings are square-headed with modern timber additions.

Setting:
The house is set behind a small garden with a low-rise wall to the front, to the West side of Ballynargan Road. The wall is rubble and snecked stone with cut-stone capping. There are two squared pillars to the centre. Pillars have pyramidal cut-stone capping, and support a simple painted wrought-iron gate. The wall continues around to the North and meets the house at the junction of the main house and the new extension.

Historical information

A building is shown on this site on the OS map of 1833-34, but not noted in the first valuation. On the map to accompany the second valuation of 1858, the property was not given a reference, so it is very difficult to trace its details. It may have been the house noted as occupied by a John Shaw, and rated at £3-10-0. This later passed to a Mary Charleton (or Charlton) in 1883, who, along with John and Wallace Charlton, acquired the freehold from the Conyngham (Springhill) estate in 1906. The building was still in Charlton family ownership in 1957.

It is probable that this house was raised in height at some point, possibly c.1900. Because of the complication with the valuations alluded to above, it is difficult to expand upon this, however.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/6/39 OS map, Co Tyrone, sheet 39 with valuation
references, 1833-34
2 PRONI VAL/2A/6/39B OS map, Co Tyrone, sheet 39 with valuation references, 1853-57(-58) [See main text above]
3 PRONI VAL/2B/6/37 Second valuation, Tamlaght parish, 1858
4 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4A Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1860-63
5 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4B Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1864-79
6 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4C Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1880-81
7 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4D Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1882-91
8 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4E Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1892-98
9 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4F Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1899-1912
10 PRONI VAL/12B/37/4B Annual valuation revision book, Coagh ED, 1913-29
11 PRONI VAL/12B/37/8A Annual valuation revision book, Grange ED, 1923-29
12 PRONI VAL/3C/7/5 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Coagh ED, 1936-57

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Fronting onto the Ballynargan Road, this simple and unassuming farmhouse is a good example of the genre. It is pleasingly proportioned and the roadside setting is very well preserved. The linear arrangement of the house and outbuilding is vernacular in character but the more formally composed front façade of the house gives it a strong presence. The original plan form survives alongside the renovations. Recent developments have maintained its vernacular tradition and are a good example of how to accommodate changes.