58 Ganvaghan Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, located to the south side of Ganvaghan Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey porch to north.

Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black ridge tiles and raised cement verges; single roughcast chimney with clay pots. Walls are roughcast. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 6/6 sliding sashes with stone sills.

Principal elevation faces north and consists of window opening to each bay at each floor; abutted at ground floor centre by flat-roofed entrance porch. Porch contains single window opening to north elevation (now blocked); east elevation contains replacement timber sheeted door surmounted by transom light; west elevation contains single window.

East gable is blank; render has partially fallen away revealing rubble and brick walling.

South elevation contains, at ground floor, vertically-sheeted timber door flanked at right by 3/6 sliding sash and 1/1 sliding sash window with exposed sash box; three 2/2 sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes at first floor.

West gable is blank.

Set within private grounds bounded to west by river; original access from road at north along avenue (now overgrown) through pair of wrought-iron gates supported on rendered piers in hedging; replacement drive to north-east to farmyard at rear. Single-storey pitched outbuilding to north-east; roof is corrugated metal; walls are lime-rendered rubble. Concrete farmyard to south bounded to west and south by recent farm sheds.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Roughcast
Windows Timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash
Rainwater goods Cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes

Historical information

Buildings are present on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map (1833). However, these do not appear to have survived. An outbuilding that is present on the second edition (1853) appears to have survived to the north east of the house. The present house does not appear until the third edition of 1905.

Annual Revisions list a ‘house, office and land’ with the buildings valued at £1.10s. James Scott is the occupier and he leases the property from Sir James M. Stronge Bt. Samuel Scott becomes the occupier in 1870 and in that year a ‘new house’ is listed. The value of the buildings is raised to £3. The house remains in the Scott family and in 1913 Thomas Scott Junior becomes the owner in fee under land purchase legislation of the early twentieth century.

In 1933 the property is a ‘house and one office’ let rent-free by Joseph Graham to his relative Annabella Knox. It comprises a kitchen, one room, one small room and porch, four bedrooms and a store. The valuer notes that there is clean water 250 yards away. The dimensions are given for a two storey house of rubble masonry and slate (37x22x20), a porch of rubble masonry and concrete (9x6x9) and an outbuilding of rubble masonry and corrugated iron (30x12).

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/12/B/35/13A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)
6. 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.1870. The house retains much of its original fabric externally. Internally, the building has been partially stripped of detailing, although some woodwork remains. Although this house is of interest its poor condition means that the historic fabric and detailing have been degraded and it does not meet the criteria for listing.