8 Glenchiel Road, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, BT79 8LN

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached two-bay two-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1850, located to the south side of Glenchiel Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey lean-to porch to south; two-storey outshot to north; attached single-bay two-storey byre to west.

Roof is pitched natural slate (largely replaced by artificial slates) with blue/black clay ridge tiles over stone eaves course; cement verges; smooth rendered chimney-stacks. Walls are lime-rendered rubble with fieldstone quoins over rendered plinth. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 3/3 sliding sashes with exposed sash boxes; stone sills at ground floor; concrete sills at first floor.

Principal elevation faces south; each bay contains single window at each floor; left bay abutted at left by porch containing vertically-sheeted timber entrance door. Attachd byre contains square-headed opening at each floor; abutted at ground floor by stone stair over porch, providing access to first floor; north elevation contains door opening at first floor.

West gable is abutted by byre; gable is blank and further abutted by single-storey outbuildings.

North elevation is abutted by outshot containing single window at ground floor; exposed section at left contains single window at ground floor; exposed section at right is blank.

East gable is abutted by single-storey outbuilding (c.1930); exposed section is blank.

Set within farmyard with access from road at north via lane bounded by farm gate. Attached single-storey outbuildings at west are of rubble construction with pitched corrugated metal roofs. Attached single-storey outbuilding to east has rendered walling and pitched corrugated metal roof; metal casement windows.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Lime-rendered rubble
Windows Timber-framed 3/3 sliding sash
Rainwater goods N/A

Historical information

A dwelling on the same site as the current building appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1853, replacing earlier buildings on the site. This appears to have been extended on both the third and fourth editions (1905-6, 1953).

Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) lists a house, offices and land occupied by John McGarvey and leased from W.H Ashe and Robert Stevenson. The buildings are valued at £1.5s. In 1872 the lessors become the Representatives of William H Ashe and Hamilton Thompson. In 1910 the occupier is James McGarvey.

By 1933 James McGarvey has become the owner in fee under land purchase legislation of the early twentieth century. The value of the house is subsequently revised to £1.15s and 10s for outbuildings. At this time, it comprises a kitchen, room and p[antry?] on the ground floor and two bedrooms on the first floor. The house is slated.

Although there is only a single rise in valuation to this range of buildings, after 1933, it would appear from field inspection and map evidence that the house and outbuildings have undergone a number of changes. It is possible that the house was initially a single-storey dwelling that was raised, incorporating a byre at the west end and was extended to the east by the addition of a further bay, this latter change dating to c.1930. Windows to the rear suggest a possible date of c.1850 as a single-storey dwelling.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/12/1 – First Edition OS Map (1832)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/12/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/12/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905-6)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/12/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1953)
5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/12 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/630A-B – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/12 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/46A – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64)
9. PRONI VAL/12/A/6/1 – Valuers’ Note Book (1895-1904)
10. PRONI VAL/12/B/39/3A-E – Annual Revision Records (1860-1924)
11. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/10L/2 – First NI General Revaluation: Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached two-bay two-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1850, located to the south side of Glenchiel Road, with attached two-storey byre. The building displays a two-storey outshot to the rear, an unusual feature in such buildings. Although an interesting 19th century two storey byre dwelling, the loss of original fabric and detailing, detracts from its character and it does not meet the criteria for listing.