10 Creeduff Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, located to the south side of Creeduff Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey flat-roofed porch to west and single-storey gabled porch to east.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; rendered chimneys with concrete coping. Walls are ruled-and-lined rendered. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 3/3 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes; 2/2 at first floor; all have stone sills.

Principal elevation faces east; left and right bays each contain single window at each floor (all 3/3); central bay is abutted by flat-roofed entrance porch containing single window; door opening to north elevation; two windows at first floor.

South gable is blank.

West elevation contains five windows at first floor; right bay abutted at ground floor by gabled rubble porch containing single window; timber framed door to north elevation; exposed section at left contains vertically-sheeted timber entrance door flanked at left and right by single window.

North gable contains two windows at first floor.

Set within farm with access from road at north via long avenue; front yard accessed through rendered and rubble walling to east. Yard to north enclosed at west by multi-bay two-storey mill-building; roof is pitched natural slate; walls are rubble with fieldstone quoins; openings are timber framed with sandstone lintels and sills; central large opening with stone voussoirs. Internally, wall-hearth supporting wattle canopy, and timber ceilings remain; cast-iron wall-mounted machinery (perhaps mechanism for mill-wheel) remain. Yard enclosed at north by further single-storey stables; roof is pitched natural slate (now partially collapsed); walls are rubble with fieldstone quoins; openings have stone lintels.

Roof Natural slate
Walls Ruled-and-lined render
Windows Timber-framed 3/3 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes; 2/2 at first floor
Rainwater goods Cast-iron half-round and round downpipes

Historical information

Buildings are shown on the site on the first edition of 1833 but none of these appear to have survived. A house on the site of the current dwelling is present on the second edition of 1853, but the present structure would appear to be of a later date. Extensive outbuildings to the north of the property and a further smaller structure to the south appear on the third edition of 1905. Tooled stone used in the first storey of the northern outbuilding range may have been salvaged from earlier buildings no longer present on the site.

In the Townland Valuation (1828-40) the property is occupied by the Widow, later amended to Henry, Rutledge and dimensions are given for a house and outbuilding. The property valuation is £2.15s.9d.

Griffith’s Valuation lists the property as occupied by Henry Rutledge and leased from Sir James Stronge Bt. It is valued at £2. In 1913 George Rutledge becomes the owner in fee under Land Purchase Acts of the early twentieth century.

In 1933 the house consists of a kitchen, three further rooms and a pantry, plus six bedrooms. After this date the valuation, which is initially £4.10s, is raised to £7.15s and £2.10s for outbuildings. Field inspection has not identified with certainty the reasons for the large rise in valuation after Annual Revisions. However, the southern end of the house contains a smaller secondary staircase and a rubblestone rear porch, while the windows to the rear elevation appear to be earlier in date than those to the northern end. This suggests that the present house may incorporate an earlier dwelling.

The valuer comments, ‘house dry and in fair condition. No bath or W.C. Clean water in summer 300 yards away.’ Dimensions are given for a house, slated porch to the rear and front porch with a concrete roof.

Although mill machinery is present in an outbuilding, there is no reference to this on Ordnance Survey maps or in valuation records.

References:

Primary Sources

1.PRONI OS/6/6/23/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2.PRONI OS/6/6/23/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1853)
3.PRONI OS/6/6/23/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4.PRONI OS/6/6/23/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1951)
5.PRONI VAL/1/A/6/23 – Townland Valuation Map
6.PRONI VAL/1/B/636D – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7.PRONI VAL/2/B/6/38B – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9.PRONI VAL/12/B/35/13A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
10.PRONI VAL/3/A/6/23E – First NI General Revaluation Map
11.PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1L/1 – Valuers RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880 and mill building. The house retains much of its original fabric, both internally and externally and has a secondary stair possibly indicating access to 'servant's quarters' or another dwelling. However, although the buildings are of interest the original fabric and detailing are compromised due to their very poor condition and they do not meet the criteria for listing.