35 Corgary Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1860, located to the north side of Corgary Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with windbreak porch to north; bed outshot to south.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal with rendered stone chimneys. Walls are painted rubble. Windows are replacement square-headed timber framed casements with painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces east; left bay contains single window; right bay contains, at left, canted windbreak porch with cat-slide roof containing replacement timber sheeted door, flanked at right by single window.

North gable is abutted by additional bay acting as shed; double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors; further abutted by lower byre (partially rebuilt gable).

West elevation is abutted at right by bed outshot containing single 2/2 sliding sash window; exposed section at left is blank.

South is blank.

Single-storey gabled rubble stable to north-east with vertically-sheeted timber doors to north gable (partially rebuilt); recent corrugated metal farm buildings to yard at north. Site bounded to road at north by rubble walling surmounted by timber fence; access though farm gate.

Roof: Pitched corrugated metal
Walling: Painted rubble stone
Windows: Timber casements
RWG: None

Historical information

The house and outbuilding opposite first appear on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904-5.

In Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) Annie and James Gallan occupy houses on the plot valued at 15s and 5s and leased from James Martin. In 1865 this value is amended to £1.3s which is likely to signify the building of a new house on the plot and occupying the present site. In 1876 Patrick Gallin is the occupier and various members of the Gallin family occupy the house in the ensuing years. There are also changes of lessor; Averell Lloyd (1888) and James McClintock (undated change). In 1899 the valuation is increased to £1.12s and the valuer comments, ‘house improved’. At this time the house and outbuildings are all of rubble masonry and thatched. The estimated cost of the buildings is £65. The valuer’s notebook gives a plan and dimensions of the building which comprises a dwelling with outshot, two adjoining outbuildings to the north and a further separate outbuilding to the east. The outbuildings to the north would appear, from the first survey photograph, to have been rebuilt since this date.

By 1933 James Gallen has become the owner in fee of the property under land purchase legislation of the early twentieth century. The valuation is increased to £1.5s and 15s for outbuildings. The house comprises a kitchen and one room (earth floors) and p[orch?]. The house is roofed with corrugated iron but all the outbuildings are still thatched at this point.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/15/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1904-5)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/15/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1951)
3. PRONI VAL/12/A/6/1 – Valuers’ Note Book (1895-1904)
4. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/20A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1923)
5. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1A/1 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, with bed outshot, located on the roadside. Although of interest as a vernacular structure within a landscape setting, as it does not have its original roof structure or interior it is not of sufficient interest to list.