9 Dublin Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

An attached two-bay two-storey rendered house with first floor south gable jettied over canted ground floor corners, built c.1820, located on the west side of Dublin Street. Rectangular on plan, facing east; modern lean-to single-storey extension.

Pitched natural slate roof, angled blue/black clay ridge tiles, polychromatic brick chimneystack, painted timber bargeboards, half-round painted metal gutters on painted timber fascia. Walling is roughcast over smooth-rendered plinth with rendered cornice. Windows to the front elevation are square-headed uPVC casements, smooth-rendered reveals and sills.

Principal (east) elevation is asymmetrical with a square-headed replacement door to left end, single window to each bay.

South gable is blank.

West elevation is abutted by modern single storey extension to left bay. Exposed section has single modern timber casement windows to each bay.

North gable is entirely abutted by adjoining building.

The house is situated near the junction of Dublin Road and Main Street, adjoining the 7 Dublin Road (HB10/04/028A), situated near St. Eugene’s Church of Ireland Church (HB10/04/003) and the former Minor Model National School (HB10/04/008).

Roof: Pitched natural slate roof, angled blue/black clay ridge tiles.
Walling: Roughcast over smooth-rendered plinth with rendered cornice
Windows: uPVC windows to front elevation and modern timber windows tro rear elevation
RWG: Half-round painted metal gutters.

Historical information

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 22x22.6x13.6, valued at £2 5s. At this time, the building’s address is 4 Upper Street and it is occupied by Anne Porter and leased from Miss Emily Barton (noted to be gentry of the town in Slater’s Directory of 1846).

Revisions (1860-63) bring the value up to £3. In the 1870s the house is occupied by John Speer and leased from Andrew Monteith. There are various changes of occupier through the revisions and the lessor becomes R Donnelly in 1908.

In 1934 valuers describe the house as ‘fair’ comprising a kitchen and one room on the first floor and three bedrooms on the second floor. The only water is in the yard. Mary Ann McNamee is the occupier in fee and the value is raised at an unspecified date to £5.10s.

The house was substantially renovated in the 1980's.

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

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A two-bay two-storey asymmetrical house, built c.1820, located on the west side of Dublin Street. The front of the house retains original window openings and nineteenth-century proportions and the exposed gable has an interesting detail where the corners are cut away at ground floor level. The original windows, however, have been replaced with inappropriate ones throughout and the rear of the house has been extended and has lost some of its original detailing, as has the interior. These changes detract substantially from the building's historic character.