39A Corgary Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1800, located to the north side of Corgary Road. Rectangular-on-plan with small windbreak porch to east.

Roof is pitched corrugated tin with raised concrete verges; smooth rendered chimneys with clay pots. Walls are of rubble construction, harled and whitened. Windows are replacement timber framed 3/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes; painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces east; from left, bay one contains single window at left and windbreak porch at right containing vertically-sheeted timber half door; bays two and three each contain single window.

South gable is blank.

West elevation contains two timber casement windows at left (that to left has painted concrete sill); at right, bays project, each containing small timber casement window.

North gable is blank.

Set within a rural site; remains of rubble stone boundary wall at south and west acts as retaining wall to mature garden. To east, single-cell rendered stone outbuilding with corrugated metal roof and painted timber doors, accessed through circular rubble pillars supporting timber gate; further pillars supporting gate to agricultural land at north. Site bound to road at south by timber fence, accessed through circular pillars connected to outer square piers by rubble walling.

Roof Corrugated metal
Walling Harled and whitened rubble stone
Windows Replacement timber framed 3/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes
RWG Replacement cast-iron ogee profile gutters and round downpipes; square downpipes to rear

Historical information

The building is shown on the first edition OS map of 1833, in its current form.
However it is not recorded in the Townland Valuation as its value was beneath the threshold for listing.

It is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation as a ‘house, offices and land’ occupied by Edward Moss (later changed to O’ Neill) and leased from James Martin. The building is valued at £0.10s. The occupier changes to Edward Connolly in 1864, at which the date the valuation increases slightly to £0.15s.

The building is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with corrugated pitched roof, probably thatched originally, although roof timbers have now largely been replaced. The dwelling appears to have been extended, from two rooms to three, following a typical linear plan form, at a later date, signified by the differing wall thickness to the north end of the building. This may correspond to the rise in value in the 1860s.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/15/1 -First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/15/2 -Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/15/3 -Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/15 -Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858)
5. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/38A -Griffith’s Valuation (1858)
6. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/20A-F -Valuation Revisions (1860-1923)
7. PRONI VAL/12/D/6/15/C -Valuation Revisions Map (1895-1925)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1800, located to the north side of Corgary Road. The dwelling, extended in later years in a linear form typical to the building type, retains much of its original vernacular character and features have been restored sympathetically, although the thatched roof has now been replaced by corrugated metal. The building has a picturesque rural setting, including a small vernacular outbuilding, and remains an important remnant of rural architecture from the nineteenth century.