207 Ballymaguire Road, Stewartstown, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT71 5NR

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A detached two-storey over basement with attic, three-bay classically proportioned house, built in the late eighteenth century. It is rectangular in plan with two main storeys, a lower partially subterranean ground floor, and an attic.

The front northwest elevation is dashed render with extensive ivy cover, no door openings and three square-headed windows with cut-stone sills to each floor. The original entrance stair and door have been removed. The windows to the lower ground floor are replacement uPVC. Those to the main floor are six-over-six timber sash windows, and those to the first floor are three-over-six timber sash.

The main entrance is on the southwest gable. It is located on the left of the main floor with one window as before to the right. The door is a square-headed timber glazed double door with projecting canopy over supported on two ionic columns. The canopy has a cornice detail. The door is accessed by a flight of seven tapering stone steps. There is a wide chimney to the apex of the gable.

The rear northwest elevation is dashed render with a square-headed replacement uPVC door to the centre of the lower ground floor. There are a variety of replacement uPVC windows on this level and a rendered single-storey return to the left. Windows above are positioned identical to the front elevation. First floor windows are sash windows as before but the windows to the main floor are replacement uPVC. The return has a monopitch artificial slate roof. The northeast gable elevation is dashed render with no openings and extensive plant cover. There is a wide chimney to the apex.

External walls are cement wetdash with a smooth plinth, and covered on two elevations with climbing plants including ivy. The roof is covered with artificial slate, is pitched and has overhanging eaves and verges. There are two rendered chimneystacks, one to the apex of each gable. Each has five clay pots. Rainwater goods and fascias are uPVC.

Setting

The house sits in the countryside well back from the Ballymaguire Road with a long lane. There is a lawn to the front and mature deciduous trees to the boundaries. The gates are cast-iron with a flanking cast-iron fence. The piers and side walls are finished with dashed render. To the rear of the house is a two-storey gable-ended rendered outbuilding with slate roof and a variety of timber sash windows.

Historical information

Canon Leslie states that this rectory this rectory was built ‘about 1775’. It is shown on the OS map of 1833-34 and recorded in the contemporary valuation as an ‘old house with a new addition and roof’, and rated at £18-4-0. Its dimensions are listed in the same valuation as amounting to 41ft x 32 x 20 for the main block, with cellars (which included the kitchen) of 41 x 32 x 8, a return of 24 x 12 x 8, outbuildings of 40½ x 18½ x 15, 36 x 18 x 11, 20 x 16 x 8, and a thatched shed measuring 45 x 16 x 6½. The property also included a ‘gate house’ at this date, its dimensions noted as 24 x 16 x 10.

At the time of the valuation the incumbent was the Rev. Jonathan Darley. Darley was succeeded by Rev. James Thomas O’Brien in 1837, who in turn was followed by Thomas McNeece in 1842, Rev. William Lee in 1863, Rev. William de Burgh 1864, Rev. Thomas Jordan 1867, Rev. Charles Leslie Garnett 1875, Rev. William Dancy 1894, Rev. Hugh Harvey Cunninghame 1904, Rev. Charles Ralph Kerr c.1929-35 and Rev. [?] Cooper in 1956.

In 1887 the gate is recorded separately by the valuers, its occupant noted as a William J. Ferguson and the rateable value £1-10-0.

Primary sources

1 PRONI VAL/1A/6/39 OS map, Co Tyrone sheet 39, with valuation
references, 1833-34
2 PRONI VAL/1B/618 First valuation, Arboe parish, 1833-34
3 PRONI VAL/2A/5/39B OS map, Co Tyrone sheet 39, with valuation references, 1853-57(-59)
4 PRONI VAL/2B/6/18E Second valuation, Arboe parish, 1859
5 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10A Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1860-63
6 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10B Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1864-79
7 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10C Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1880-81
8 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10D Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1882-96
9 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10E Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1897-1912
10 PRONI VAL/12B/37/10F Annual valuation revision book, Killycolpy ED, 1913-29
11 PRONI VAL/3C/7/5 First general revaluation of Northern Ireland, Killycolpy ED, 1936-57

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached two-storey house over basement with attic, three-bay and classically proportioned, built in the late eighteenth century. It was once a significant property, architecturally and historically but has been seriously degraded with the loss of its principal entrance, re-orientation of its plan form and the loss of its original roof along with modern windows in an inappropriate style and material.