3 Dublin Street,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Semi-detatched two-storey house, dated 1753, located to the west side of Dublin Street. Left hand part of a larger house that was sub-divided in 1918 to form two two-bay dwellings; 1 Dublin Street at right and 3 Dublin Street at left.

Roofs are pitched natural slate (replacement to main house) with blue/black clay ridge tiles over timber eaves course; ruled-and-lined rendered chimneys with clay pots. Walls are smooth render; roughcast render to rear. Windows are square-headed replacement uPVC casements to 3 Dublin Street; all have painted masonry sills.

Principal elevation faces east; ground floor contains canted bay with leaded flat roof flanked at right by replacement square-headed uPVC door surmounted by datestone inscribed ‘R McG 1753’; single window at first floor left is a double top hung uPVC.

South gable is abutted by adjoining house (HB10/04/027).

Rear elevation could not be seen.

North gable is abutted by adjoining house (HB10.04.026A)

House is accessed directly from street at east via three shared stone steps; wrought iron railings at left enclose raised paved area; enclosed gardens to west with two storey rubble outbuilding and bounded by rubble walling ; site bounded to road at west by rubble walling.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Smooth render; roughcast render to rear
Windows Square-headed replacement square-headed uPVC casements to
RWG Replacement uPVC ogee profile gutters and square downpipes

Historical information

The overall building comprising both 1 and 3 Dublin Street was formerly a single dwelling, and is dated 1753.

There are buildings shown on the site on the 1833 OS Map. Unfortunately the earliest town plan, which dates from 1828-40, has not survived, and the building is not, therefore, identifiable in the Townland Valuation.

The first clear mention of the building is in Griffith’s Valuation and on the associated Town Plan of 1856-64, where it is shown as a single building numbered 1 ‘Upper Street’. The house offices and yard are being used as a ‘loan fund office’. Dimensions of the house are as follows: House 37x25x15.6, addition 30x8.6x14.6, addition 21x3x14.6, addition 18x19x7. Together with offices this is valued at £10 5s 4d, occupied by John Rogers Esq JP and leased from Miss Emily Barton.

Revisions (1860-1929) value the property at £10 and by 1864 the occupier is William Sterling who leases it from Andrew Monteith. In 1870 an amendment decreases the value to £8 10s and a note remarks ‘offices dilapidated’. There are various changes in occupier and in 1918 the house is split into two, numbered 1A and 1B. These are valued at £3 10s each and leased from James Ballantine.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/17/1 – First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/17/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1854)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/17/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4. PRONI VAL/1A/6/17 – Townland Valuation Map
5. PRONI VAL/1B/637A-F – Townland Valuation Records (1828-1840)
6. PRONI VAL/2/D/6/10 – Griffith’s Valuation Town Plan (1849-1869)
7. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/40B – Griffith’s Valuation Records (1858)
8. PRONI VAL/12/E/160/1 – Annual Revision Records Town Plan (1898)
9. PRONI VAL/12/E/160/2 – Annual Revision Records Town Plan (1908)
10. PRONI VAL/12/B/42/27A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1929)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A semi-detatched two-storey house, of mid eighteenth century date, located to the west side of Dublin Street. This house is one of two that were sub-divided and re-modelled during the early twentieth-century. This house has lost a substantial amount of its architectural interest as a result of the inappropriate windows to the front elevation. Both houses, however, occupy a very important position at the top of Main Street and enjoy a good urban setting within Newtownstewart Conservation Area. They have group value with each other.

General comments

These buildings were recorded under HB10.04.026 in the First Survey. The record was split during the Second Survey. No 1 is now recorded at HB10.04.026A and No 3 at HB10.04.026B