29 Laght Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, located to the west side of Laght Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey gabled porch to east; attached single-storey byre to north.

Roof is pitched corrugated asbestos; red brick corbelled chimneys. Walls are ruled-and-lined rendered; roughcast to north elevation. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sashes with exposed sash boxes at ground floor and 1/1 at ground floor; all have concrete sills.

Principal elevation faces east and is abutted at centre by smooth rendered porch containing replacement timber glazed door; single window to left and right; three windows at first floor.

South elevation is blank.

West elevation largely overgrown.

North elevation is pebbledash rendered and abutted at ground floor by lime-rendered rubble byre with corrugated metal roof abutted by further rubble lean-to; exposed section at first floor is blank.

Set on elevated site within rural farmyard with range of outbuildings to east; all have lime-rendered rubble walling and pitched corrugated iron roofs. One-and-a-half-storey barn to south abutted at east by single-storey rendered lean-to. Two-storey barn to south-east has exposed rubble walling with fieldstone quoins and abutted at north by rubble lean-to; openings to first floor blocked. Single-storey stable block to north-west abutted at west by byre.

Roof; Corrugated asbestos
Walling Ruled-and-lined cement render
Windows Timber framed 2/2 sliding sash; 1/1 at first floor
Rainwater goods Cast iron half-round gutters and round downpipes

Historical information

There are buildings present on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, some of which appear to have survived to the present day.

The Townland Valuation (1828-40) notes that, ‘There are no houses in this townland worth five pounds a year’. Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) lists the plot as two separate dwellings occupied by John Hamilton and William Hamilton Senior and leased from the Earl of Castlestuart. They are both a house, offices and land. One set of buildings is valued at £1.15s, later revised to £1 and the other at 15s. The dividing line between the two properties appears to run through the centre of what is now the main house, possibly indicating that at one time this was two separate dwellings.

In 1870 a new ‘office’ is added to the plot and the value increases by 10s. The properties remain in the Hamilton family until 1915 when George Watson becomes the occupier of the main house. In 1933 he remains the occupier and the valuation of the property is increased after that date to £2.5s and 10s for outbuildings.

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 (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/15/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1904-5)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/15/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1951)
5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/15 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/636B – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/15 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/38C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/20A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1924)
10. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1J/2 – First NI General Revaluation: 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 farmhouse, built c.1900, located to the west side of Laght Road. This house features some traditional materials and detailing, including timber sash windows, and proportions are typical of a rural building of this type which is still relatively common. There are some inappropriate works. The site is enhanced by a range of rubble outbuildings, forming a pleasant grouping typical of the vernacular rural tradition.