5 Dublin Street,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A detached three-bay two-storey asymmetrical house, built c.1850, located on the west side of Dublin Street. Rectangular on plan, facing east.

Pitched artificial slate roof, blue/black angled ridge tiles; chimneystacks to each gable, that to left is cement rendered, that to right is polychromatic brick; half-round painted cast-iron gutters. Walling is painted render. Windows are square-headed painted timber 1/1 sashes, painted rendered sills.

Principal (east) elevation left bay has two windows to each floor, centre bay has single window over square-headed painted timber raised-and-fielded four-panelled door, plate glass overlight, accessed by four stone steps, wrought-iron railings enclosing area to right.

South gable abutted by adjoining building. Exposed section is blank, unpainted rendered.

Rear (west) elevation is asymmetrical, left end projects, right end abutted by lean-to shed (of no interest); variety of square-headed replacement casement windows, except to first floor left end with 2/2 sash, square-headed replacement timber door with overlight.

North gable abutted by adjoining building; exposed section is blank and detailed as principal elevation.

House accessed directly from street via four masonry steps; wrought iron railings. Enclosed garden to west bounded by rubble walling with 2-storey rubble outbuilding with painted timber doors to rear. The house is situated at the junction of Dublin Road and Main Street, near St. Eugene’s Church of Ireland Church (HB10/04/003) and the former Minor Model National School (HB10/04/008), it adjoins the semidetached 1-3 Dublin Road (HB10/04/026A-B) to north and the 7 Dublin Road (HB10/04/028A).

Roof Pitched artificial slate roof, blue/black angled ridge tiles
Walling Painted render
Windows Square-headed painted timber 1/1 sashes, painted rendered sills
RWG Half-round painted cast-iron gutters

Historical information

Stylistically the building can be dated to c.1850, appearing somewhat later in date than its neighbours to the west (HB10/04/026) and east (HB10/04/028A and B)

There are buildings shown on the site from the time of 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 (1856-64) which gives dimensions as follows: House 27.6x25x16, addition 7x5x14, addition 2.6x3x6.6 together with 2 offices and 1 basement office valued together at £5 4s 6d. At this time the building’s address is 2 Upper Street. The house is unoccupied and the lessor is Miss Emily Barton (noted to be gentry of the town in Slater’s Directory of 1846).

Revisions bring the value up to £6 10s. In the 1870s the house is occupied by John Todd and leased from Andrew Monteith. It is valued at £8 in 1875, suggesting some improvements at this time. There are various changes of occupier through the revisions but no other changes of significance.

Valuers note in 1934 that the house comprises a kitchen and two rooms on the ground floor and four bedrooms on the first floor. At this time the only water is in the yard and it has a dry closet. The value is raised from £8 to £11 and the lessor is now John Doherty.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/17/1 – Ordnance Survey Map 1833
2. PRONI OS/6/6/17/2 – Ordnance Survey Map 1854
3. PRONI OS/6/6/17/3 – Ordnance Survey 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)
11. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/107/2 – Valuers RV Binders (1933-57)

Secondary Sources

1. Slater’s Directory of Ireland 1846

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A well proportioned three-bay two-storey asymmetrical house, built c.1850, located on the west side of Dublin Street. The house retains many of its original external features and occupies a prominent elevated position at the junction of Main Street and Dublin Road. The pitchline of the house offers a highly visible contrast between a nineteenth-century slope with the steep pitches of its abutting eighteenth-century neighbours.