20 Bolaght Road,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling with attic, built c.1860, located to the west side of Bolaght Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with windbreak porch to east; bed outshot to west; south bay added later, c.1910.

Roof is pitched corrugated metal with concrete verges; rendered chimneys with stone coping. No rainwater goods. Walls are whitened lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 1/1 sliding sash (largely replaced) with stone sills.

Principal elevation faces east; left bay contains single window; central bay contains casement window at left flanked at right by windbreak porch with lean-to concrete roof containing vertically-sheeted timber door; right bay contains 6/6 sliding sash window.

South elevation is blank.

West elevation is abutted at centre by bed outshot containing single metal casement; exposed section at left contains single metal casement window; exposed section at right is blank.

North elevation is abutted by lower single-storey byre and stable, detailed as house; exposed section at left contains replacement leaded lattice window to attic.

Set within private grounds accessed from road at east by driveway, largely overgrown. One-and-a-half-storey barn to north (detailed as house) containing vertically-sheeted timber door to each floor and abutted to east by single-storey corrugated metal lean-to.

Roof: Pitched artificial slate
Walling: Limewashed lime-rendered
Windows: 1/1 sliding sash
RWG: None

Historical information

Buildings first appear on the site on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1905, together with small outbuildings to the east and north west.

Griffith’s Valuation (1859) lists a house and land occupied by David Johnston and leased from George T Spiller. The house is valued at 10s. In 1905, the occupier becomes Joseph Johnston.

Post 1933 the occupier becomes Robert Moore and the valuation of the house is raised to £1 with outbuildings valued at 5s (undated changes). The house comprises a kitchen and one room. Water is nearby. The house is constructed of rubble masonry with a corrugated iron roof and measures 33x17. The outshot is of the same materials and measures 16x1. An outbuilding measuring 14x17 is also listed but is unroofed at the time. Dimensions and a plan are given.

The house is distinctly vernacular in appearance and seems to originally date from the mid-nineteenth-century, indicated by simple construction and materials. The building was originally thatched and appears to have been extended to the south c.1900, indicated by position of hearth internally.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/24/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/24/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1939-50)
3. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/24 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
4. PRONI Printed Griffith’s Valuation, Union of Castlederg (1859)
5. PRONI VAL/12/B/35/4A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1924)
6. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/1F/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 single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling with attic, built c.1860, located to the west side of Bolaght Road. This simple building form has been extended in a linear pattern, as was typical development of this building type. The building retains original external fabric including doors and render, and has an attached byre and barn, which appear to have been built simultaneously. Although of interest, due to the replacement of roof fabric and deterioration of the interior fabric in the house, the character of the these buildings has been compromised and they do not meet the criteria for listing.