33 Concess Road, Sion Mills, BT82 9NA

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Detached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c.1800. Rectangular on plan, facing east, located on the west side of Concess Road access via a lane to the northeast. Front entrance porch, rear entrance porch, rear outshot or lean-to and range of single and two-storey rubble outbuildings to the south and west.

Pitched natural slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, cement barges to gables and four rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Steel rainwater goods on drive-through brackets. Cement rendered walling with rusticated rendered soldier quoins to front elevation, cement render to gabled elevations, rough-cast lime render to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, concrete sills and timber sash windows.
Four-bay two-storey front elevation with central single-storey flat-roof entrance porch having cornice and arched openings to all three sides. 2/2 timber sash windows with smooth render surrounds.
South side gable is blank.
Multi-bay two-storey rear elevation has diminutive square-headed window openings below eaves level with four-pane timber casement windows and slate sills. To the right is a lean-to rear entrance porch with corrugated iron roof and a timber plank door to the left cheek. To the left is a shallow lean-to projection with corrugated iron roof. To the centre is a 3/6 timber sash window with exposed sash box and stone sill and a square-headed door opening with timber plank door.
North side gable has a pair of square-headed window openings at first floor level with 2/2 and 3/6 timber sash windows.

Roof Natural slate
Walling Cement render / Lime render over rubble
Windows Timber sash
Rainwater goods Steel

Historical information

Buildings are present on the site on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832-3 and these appear to have survived to the present day.

The Townland Valution (1828-40) does not list the buildings, remarking that ‘There are no houses in this townland worth five pounds a year’. Griffith’s Valuation (1859) lists a house, offices and land, the valuation for the buildings being £4. Robert McFarland occupies the house and leases it from the Marquess of Abercorn. A marginal note dated May 1860 reads, ‘new offices 2 not valued’. The property remains in the McFarland family until 1901 when Andrew McKean becomes the occupier. He is the owner in fee in 1907 under land acquisition legislation of the early twentieth century.

After 1934 James McKean becomes the owner and the valuation is raised to £7.15s and £1.10 for outbuildings, perhaps indicating rebuilding or remodelling in the preceding years. At this time the house comprises two rooms, a kitchen, scullery, two small rooms, p[antry?], four bedrooms and two rough stores (unceiled). The house is of rubble masonry and slate. Dimensions are given for the house and outshot. The rear porch would appear to be a later addition.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/9/1 – First Edition OS Map (1832-3)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/9/2 – Second Edition OS Map (1855)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/9/3 – Third Edition OS Map (1905)
4. PRONI OS/6/6/9/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map (1951)
5. PRONI VAL/1/A/6/9 – Townland Valuation Map
6. PRONI VAL/1/B/637A – Townland Valuation (1828-40)
7. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/9 – Griffiths’ Valuation Map
8. PRONI Printed Griffith’s Valuation – Union of Strabane (1859)
9. PRONI VAL/12/B/42/1A-F – Annual Revision Records (1860-1923)
10. PRONI VAL/3/D/7/10A/2 – Valuers’ RV Binder (1933-57)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Four-bay two-storey house on the west side of Concess Road. This substantial house appears to be of early nineteenth-century in date, possibly raised and with its front elevation renovated c.1900. This is an interesting early Victorian house that has been raised and altered at the end of the nineteenth century and retains features from a wide time span. Unfortunately it is now in too derelect a state to be of listable quailty.