19 Edenreagh Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay, direct entry single-storey rendered former thatched dwelling, built c.1840, on an isolated site to the west of Edenderry Road. Rectangular on plan, facing east, with incorporated byre, attached outbuilding to south gable and pair of rubble outbuildings forming a front yard.

Pitched corrugated iron roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks and plastic rainwater goods. Lime render over rubble stone walling.
Front elevation incorporates open byre to left (exposing relatively recent timber roof construction). Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows comprising 6/6 to left, 1/1 to left of entrance and 2/2 to right of entrance. Lean-to projecting windbreaker entrance porch with corrugated iron roof and square-headed door opening with vertically-sheeted timber half-door.

South gable is abutted by rubble stone outbuilding with corrugated iron roof and vertically-sheeted timber door.

Rear elevation is obscured by vegetation with a bed outshot to the centre and a pair of 3/6 timber sash windows.

North side gable is blank with the rubble stone ruins of some earlier structures.

Facing the house is a two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with corrugated iron barrel roof, white-washed rubble stone walling and pair of vertically-sheeted timber half-doors. To the northeast is a further lofted rubble stone barn with pitched corrugated iron roof, white-washed rubble stone walls with tooled quoins and a flight of stone steps to the west gable.

Roof Corrugated iron
Walling Lime render over rubble stone
Windows Timber sash
Rainwater goods Plastic

Historical information

A building is present on the site on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833 captioned ‘ruin’. This appears to form the basis of a building that is shown on the second edition of 1853 and which has survived to the present day.

Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) divides the long building into two plots which are separately leased from the Representatives of Anne Tennant. The southern half is occupied by James McGobrick and it is valued, together with outbuildings, at 12s, later raised to 15s. In 1894 the property passes to the McPhelimy family and Michael McPhelimy becomes the owner in fee in 1914.

Post 1933 the house to the south is revalued at £2, and the outbuildings at 5s (change undated). It comprises, at this time, a kitchen, two rooms and a p[orch?]. The house is of rubble masonry and thatch measuring 46x18x10. The single-storey porch is also of rubble masonry and thatch and measures 7x3x6. In 1946 it is noted that the house and agricultural buildings forming the northern part of the structure are ‘down’.

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/2/A/6/23 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/38B – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
7. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/13A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1924)
8. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1K/1 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

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

Formerly thatched, this mid-nineteenth-century, three-bay, single-storey dwelling displays many of the characteristics of a nineteenth-century vernacular holding including lime-washed stone walls, timber sash windows and a grouping of stone outbuildings. The three bay, direct entry plan form with a rear bed outshot is typical of this part of N Ireland and remains largely intact. The central kitchen bay retains its large hearth, now fitted with a cast iron range, boarded ceiling, boxed partition to outshot and gas lamp. The rest of the interior detailing is also appropriate for the period and building type and the original trussed roof construction, that would have supported a thatch roof appears to be in place above the canted timber boarded ceilings. This house, its isolated rural setting and its associated stone outbuildings together form an increasingly rare vernacular group.